Puff Pastry for Pirogi

Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Make a cold-water dough with 2 stakan flour (reserve 1/4 stakan for dusting); roll half a finger thick.
  2. Wash and wring 1/2 funt butter, work smooth; enclose the flat butter round in the dough.
  3. Roll, fold in three, chill 1/4 hour; repeat six times (18-fold), ~2 hours, always keeping cold.
  4. Roll out, line the base with thin trimmed blinchiki, add filling and fish, pinch closed, and bake per the note.

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