Perfect Shortcrust Pastry
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Welcome to perfect Shortcrust

How this course will work
How to contact us if you need help
What do you need to make shortcrust pastry?

What equipment do you need?
Basic Pastry Ingredients
Pastry Types

There are many pastry types:
Sweet shortcrust
Savoury Shortcrust
Overview of making Shortcrust dough
By-Hand Method will help you understand
Downloadable Recipe Worksheet: Savoury and Sweet Shortcrust
Important things to know:

What does ‘light touch’ and ‘keep it cool’ really mean?
Chilling and Storage of your Shortcrust
Keep it Chilled:
Video: What happens when you mix flour and water
Video: Important tips on pastry
Start Here: Lesson 1: Easy Mini Tarts

Lesson 1: Mini Tarts (Jam Tarts)
Lesson 1: Recipe Worksheet Jam Tarts Download
Video: Lesson 1, Bec's easy method for making Mini Tarts
Lesson 2: How to line a pastry tin Bec's easy way.

Lesson 2: Lining a tart tin the easy way.
Video: Lesson 2, Lining your tart tin the Bec's easy way
Lesson 3: No need to blind bake tarts

Recipes that don't need to be blind baked:
Ideas for toppings and fillings for Frangipane tarts or Sand Tart
Recipe Download: Orange Frangipane Tart
Recipe Download: Pear Almond Tart
Recipe Download: Raspberry Frangipane Tart
Recipe Download: Recipe for making Glace Orange Slices
Recipe Download: Tarte l'amour (Sand Tart)
Lesson 4: Blind Baking made easy

Lesson 4: To blind bake or not to blind bake?
Video: Lesson 4, How Blind Bake With Bec's Tips
Lesson 5: Baking custard fillings

Bec's Quiche and Custard fillings tips
How to blind bake and bake off a custard filled tart
Recipe Download: Malted Chocolate Tart
Recipe Download: Egg Custard Tart
Recipe Download: Bec's Easy Quiche
Wrap Up of Shortcrust Pasty course

Troubleshooting - Shortcrust Pastry Faults
What have you learnt in this course?
Want to check your knowledge?: Quiz
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Lesson 5: Baking custard fillings

5 Lessons