puff-paste

Take two pounds of flour, a pound of sugar, and a pound of butter; wash the butter in orange-flower water, and dry the flour; rub the butter into the flour as for puff-paste, beat three eggs fine in three spoonfuls of cream, and a little mace and salt, mix these well together with your hand, and make them into little cakes; rub them over with white of egg, and grate sugar upon them;

English Housewifery 2004

Take the kidney of a loin of veal with the fat, when roasted shred it very fine, put to it a little shred mace, nutmeg and salt, about half a pound of currans, the juice of a lemon, and sugar to your taste, then bake them in puff-paste; you may either fry or bake them.

English Housewifery 2004

And red deer too, Sir Giles, and bak'd in puff-paste!

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

In cities the cases are very easily bought, but where they have to be made at home, only one who is already an expert in making puff-paste should attempt them.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

To many persons, pastry making is an intricate matter, but with the principles thoroughly explained and each step clearly illustrated, delicious pies of every variety, as well as puff-paste dainties, may be had with very little effort.

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies

_ -- Line patty-pans with puff-paste, and fill three parts full with the following mixture: put a gill of cream in a double boiler with two ounces of grated cheese (half Parmesan if liked), a saltspoonful of salt, a pinch of pepper, a pinch of sugar, and a large teaspoonful of butter; when all is melted to a thick custard, break into it two eggs well whipped.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

Roll puff-paste a quarter of an inch thick for each patty, cut three circles from it, moisten the surface of two very slightly with water, place one on the other, then with a sharp penknife cut a circle nearly through the third round, leaving a margin of one third of an inch; lay this round carefully on the other two; brush the top with white of egg

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

Line a mould with light puff-paste, pour the mixture into it, and bake one hour; turn out and serve very hot.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

_ -- Make some puff-paste; roll it out _very_ thin.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

_ -- These make a very pretty kind of patty when puff-paste is not to be had, and even when it is are a desirable variety.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen