Davis's Tart Pastry

Ingredients:

• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• ½ cup cold butter
• 2 egg yolks, beaten
• 1 tblspn cold water

Instructions:
Mix flour and sugar together in a medium bowl, and cut in butter until pea sized. In a separate small bowl mix egg yolks and water together until frothy. Stir in egg yolk mixture to flour mixture, and using your fingers gently knead the dough until a ball forms. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes or until pastry is easy to handle.

Using a lightly floured surface, use your hands to flatten pastry. Then with either a wooden rolling pin, or a chilled rolling pin, roll out dough from center to edges into a circle about 12” in diameter.

Roll pastry onto rolling pin, and transfer to whatever pan will be used, follow fill and baking instructions for that recipe.

Notes:

• Do not use a warm rolling pin as this will cause the butter in the pastry to begin to melt and make the pastry sticky and unmanageable.
• To make diabetic friendly, substitue Splenda for sugar!