Quickest Puff Pastry

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

Using a food processor and a new jelly-roll folding method, home cooks can now make puff pastry easily and quickly.

SERVES Makes about 1 1/2 pounds of dough

TIME 25 minutes, plus 1 hour chilling

Quickest Puff Pastry

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wondered if we could eliminate the repeated rolling and folding called for in the conventional puff pastry recipe, but still create multiple layers in our quick puff pastry dough recipe. We discovered we could do this by folding the doug...

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