Recipe - Rich Sweet Pastry Dough

2 cup All purpose flour
1/3 cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
One half Stick cold unsalted butter;
cut into bits
6 lg Egg yolks

In a bowl with a pastry blender or in a food processor blend or pulse
together flour, sugar, and salt. Add butter and blend or pulse until
mixture resembles coarse meal. Add yolks and, if blending by hand, stir
until mixture forms a dough. If using a food processor pulse until mixture
forms large clumps and with hands form mixture into a dough.

On a work surface smear dough in 3 or 4 forward motions with heel of hand
to slightly develop gluten in flour and make dough easier to work with.
Form dough into a ball and flatten to form a disk. Chill dough, wrapped in
plastic wrap, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.

Yield: Enough dough for an 11 to 12inch tart

Notes: Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine

Recipe by: Cooking live Show #9017

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #968 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@comteck.com on Dec 19, 1997