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Buttermilk Dough For Fried Fruit Pies
Healthy extra moist chocolate cakedel's cooking twist.
Recipe Summary Buttermilk Dough For Fried Fruit Pies
This dough uses buttermilk, lard, and kosher salt to create a perfect pairing with fried fruit pies.Ingredients | Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe With Oil And Buttermilk
3 cups all-purpose flour
½ cup lard
3 tablespoons white sugar
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
Directions
Pulse flour, lard, sugar, and salt in a food processor until you have flour-covered pea-sized pieces, about 15 quick pulses. Add buttermilk all at once and process until the wet dough almost comes together.
Generously flour work surface and scrape dough out onto it. Turn dough over to coat. Gather and fold dough over on itself a couple of times, then pat into a soft 4x6-inch block.
Crisscross 2 long pieces of plastic wrap to form an X and lightly dust with flour. Place dough in the center and wrap tightly. Smooth wrapped surface with rolling pin; flip and repeat. Chill at least 4 hours or preferably overnight, or slip into a zip-top plastic freezer bag and freeze up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before using.
Substitute vegetable shortening for the lard, if desired.
Info | Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe With Oil And Buttermilk
prep:
10 mins
additional:
4 hrs
total:
4 hrs 10 mins
Servings:
12
Yield:
12 hand pies' worth of dough
