Dutch Yeasted Sweet Pastry

How to make Dutch Yeasted Sweet Pastry Recipe

FERMENT:
75g water
5g active dried yeast
75g standard plain flour
1½ tsp sugar

DOUGH:
150g standard plain flour
¼ tsp salt
1 small egg
1½ tsp sugar
90g butter, softened

Method:
For the ferment, place water and yeast in a bowl and whisk to dissolve yeast. Add flour and sugar and stir vigorously for 2 minutes to make a paste. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for 20 minutes to ferment.

To make the dough, mix flour, salt, egg, sugar, butter and yeast ferment together until it forms a mass and dough is well combined and smooth. Don’t over-mix dough as this will cause shrinkage during rolling out and baking.

Roll out and set aside on a floured surface for 10 minutes to rest, covered with plastic wrap. If you don’t use pastry within 10 minutes, refrigerate it to prevent it rising too much.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out pastry into a sheet about 3mm thick or as stated in your recipe.