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Finest Puff Pastry

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g flour (fine, dry)
• 500 g butter
• 1.25 cup water (cold)
• 1 glass rum or arrack
• 1 pcs egg

Instructions

1. The evening before, thoroughly wash the butter, press it flat to a finger's thickness, and chill on a plate.
2. The next day, make a well in the center of the flour, add egg, water, and rum, work the flour in with a knife, and process the dough with your hands.
3. It should be neither too stiff nor sticky.
4. Roll out the dough to a finger's thickness, place the butter on top, and fold the dough over the butter from all four sides.
5. Let rest in a cool place for half an hour.
6. Then roll out, using only a little flour for dusting, brush off excess flour with a hand broom, and fold the dough again.
7. Let rest for another half hour.
8. Repeat this process two more times.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.