French pastry recipes

With basic cooking techniques and a little practice, you can begin enjoying famous French pastry recipes in your own kitchen in no time!

Strawberry pie
Ingredients:

CRUST:

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ¼ cups powdered sugar
• ½ cup finely ground almonds
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup cold butter
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

FILLING:

• Vanilla Pastry Cream
• Fresh Strawberries
• Red Apricot Glaze

Preparation:

In a small bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, almonds, and salt. Using a pastry cutter, large-tined fork, or a food processor on pulse setting, cut the chilled butter into the flour until it resembles coarse sand with a few pea-sized pieces of butter still visible. Stir the egg into the mixture and toss gently a few times, just until it forms a ball that holds together.
Pour the filling into the pie crust.
Bake in oven for about 30 minutes at 425 deg. F.

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Pastry recipes (I)

Most people adore pastry in spite of that it is high-calorie food. But some pastry recipes are even very good for particular zodiac signs. This recipe of pastry especial fits for Gemini. Because lemon in recipe it contributes some butter in pastry and piece of pie would like any gourmet.

FRENCH LEMON PIE

Ingredients:
CRUST

3/4 cup wheat flour

1/4 lb butter

2 tbsp water

FILLING

1 lemon

4 tbsp butter

1 egg

1/2 cup sugar

Directions:
(1) Preheat the oven to 425 deg. F.
(2) Crust: Mix flour and butter in a food processor. Add water and form a dough. Press into a pie pan.
(3) Filling: Grate the lemon peel. Press the juice out of the lemon.
(4) Melt the butter.
(5) Beat the egg with sugar, the melted butter, lemon juice and lemon peel.
(6) Pour the filling into the pie crust.
(7) Bake in oven for about 30 minutes at 425 deg. F.
(8) Let the pie cool down.
This recipe of pastry is very easy making even your are not very big cooker. Enjoy!