Puff Pastry Fat is a special fat for the commercial production of pastries, including pie crusts, puff pastry, Danish pastries, and croissants, It’s made from hydrogenated vegetable oils, which makes it acceptable to specialized diets such as Jewish or Muslim ones. It’s better than margarine produced for the home market, as it has far less…
Puff Pastry
Cheese, Artichoke and Pancetta Puffs Recipe
They’ll think you fussed forever with savoury pastry squares. Good as a light lunch with a quick, leafy salad on the side.
Zucchini and Pesto Puffs Recipe
Lovely puffs that actually feature zucchini, rather than attempting to camoflauge it.
Chicken Pot Pie with Chestnut Mushrooms, White Wine Sauce and Puff Pastry Crust Recipe
This pie has a gorgeous filling, a gorgeous crust, and so few ingredients! Yet the flavours of the chicken, chestnut mushrooms and white wine come through in a memorable dish.
Cheesy Tomato & Olive Tarts Recipe
Nice for a lunch, with a leafy green side salad.
Sausage and Mushroom Turnovers Recipe
You can serve these hot or room temperature. Room temperature, they make great picnic food.
Dill & Cheese Pasties Recipe
Dead easy, can be made a day in advance.
Puff Pastry (Quick) Recipe
Use as a topping for meat or fruit pies, sausage rolls, etc, where you want a flaky crust but don’t need the rise. Don’t use this in recipes where the pastry needs to really rise, such as vol-au-vents, etc.
Sausage and Beef Wellington Recipe
A classic Italian country dish.
Cheese, Potato and Onion Squares Recipe
You can make the pie up to a day ahead; just don’t glaze it with the egg until it actually goes into the oven.
Bacon & Onion Tart Recipe
Slices of carmellized onion and bacon on crispy, flaky puff pastry. Serve with a side salad.
Upside Down Tomato Puff Pie Recipe
Baked red onions, tomatoes and puff pastry: yum. Dead easy to make, and looks great.
Squash, Spinach and Prune Roll Recipe
This is a bit of futzing, but as most of these kinds of recipes are for meat, it was worth including this meatless one. The prunes are actually gorgeous in it, particularly with the squash.
Tomato Basil Puff Squares Recipe
This is a summer recipe; make when the tomatoes are at their best and fresh basil is plentiful and inexpensive.
Strawberry Mille Feuille Recipe
This is a cheat’s version, but who’ll complain if you hand it to them?
French Onion Tart Recipe
The onions turn really sweet because they are cooked for so long, first in the frying pan and then again in the oven. Very nice with a salad with tomatoes in it.