Hot Water Pastry

Just a blatant rip off of the recipe from the Gormet Dough website, with the lard replaced by veg suet, not even sure if that's a good idea. Ingredients

• 500 g flour
• 200 ml water
• 120 g soya marge of some sort
• 70 g vegetarian suet
• 1 level teaspoon salt

Method

1. Place the flour into a large bowl and set aside.
2. Place the water, marge, suet and salt into a saucepan and heat over a medium heat, stirring as the fat melts. Once it comes to the boil, take the pan off the heat and pour it the bowl with the flour.
3. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon until all the ingredients are combined. Cover the bowl with a cleanip off tea towel and leave to rest and cool for 1 hour.
4. After 1 hour, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and flatten into a rectangle.
5. Fold the dough into thirds by taking one side of the dough into the centre and pressing down with your fingers.
6. Then lift up the other side of the dough and bring it over the top. Press down again with your fingers.
7. Flatten the dough out again into a rough rectangle and repeat the same process once more.
8. Flatten the dough into a rectangle and place onto a baking tray. Cover it with clingfilm and rest in the fridge for 30 minutes to firm up.
9. The dough is then ready to be rolled out and used in your preferred recipe.