Puff Pastry for Pirogi
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- stakan wheat flour
- stakan cold water
- funt fresh butter
- egg
Instructions
- Make a cold-water dough with 2 stakan flour (reserve 1/4 stakan for dusting); roll half a finger thick.
- Wash and wring 1/2 funt butter, work smooth; enclose the flat butter round in the dough.
- Roll, fold in three, chill 1/4 hour; repeat six times (18-fold), ~2 hours, always keeping cold.
- Roll out, line the base with thin trimmed blinchiki, add filling and fish, pinch closed, and bake per the note.