Add 2 tablespoons of caster sugar to the rubbed in butter and flour mix to make a sweet shortcrust pastry. You can also add an egg yolk, before adding the water, for extra richness. Using a food ...

For the pastry, pulse the flour, baking powder, salt, butter and egg yolk in a food processor until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Gradually add the water, a tablespoon at a time, mixing ...

By coating the flour with fat instead of just water (as with bread), the flour particles separate and you get a crumbly baked dough. Consider that when adding raw egg yolk to shortcrust pastry, you're ...