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Sift together the bread flour and cake flour.
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Cut the butter into 2 cm cubes and keep chilled.
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Add butter to the sifted flour, and using a dough scraper, cut the butter while mixing into the flour, until the butter forms bean-sized lumps.
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Add chilled water to the dough from Step 2, mix with a spatula, then use your hands to bring it together.
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The key is not to knead it, leaving the dots of butter intact.
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Form the dough into a 10 cm x 15 cm rectangle, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour or more in the refrigerator.
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When baking pies, it's easier if you prepare the dough a day in advance.
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Dust your working surface with flour, then roll out the dough to 1 cm thick, then fold into thirds, bringing the sides into the center.
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Rotate the dough 90 degrees , then repeat Step 5, 5 times--making a total of six repeated rolling steps.
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Now, it's ready to use!
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The once crumbly dough is now nice and smooth.
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To make puff pastry If you roll out the dough to 5 mm thick, then freeze them, you'll have a nice stock of puff pastry!
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For apple pies, bake for a total of 40 minutes: 20 minutes at 200C, then for 20 more minutes at 180C.
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See my Heart Shaped Sugar Pie.
