Urgent pastry help please!!

Moominmamma

I'm just about to embark upon making Jamie Oliver's Cornish Cowboy Pasties and in the recipe for the pastry it calls for 1tbsp of sea salt to 500g of flour - pastry is really not my forte, but that seems like an awful lot Does it mean 1 tsp? Gonna make a start on the filling and hope some lovely person on here knows more about pastry making than I do and can help!!

tanith

It sounds a lot to me to, but he might just mean what he says but I wouldn't ever put that much in a teaspoon is what I would use ...

Chris25

could it be because sea-salt is larger clumps rather than fine grains, that's why you need more?

Penelope_Penguin

Moominmamma wrote: »

I'm just about to embark upon making Jamie Oliver's Cornish Cowboy Pasties and in the recipe for the pastry it calls for 1tbsp of sea salt to 500g of flour - pastry is really not my forte, but that seems like an awful lot Does it mean 1 tsp? Gonna make a start on the filling and hope some lovely person on here knows more about pastry making than I do and can help!!

I rarely add salt to cooking, and would leave it out of that recipe Looks good, so do let us know how it turns out

Penny. x

custardy

i would say they mean one teaspoon of malden type sea salt
so i would use less than 1 teaspoon of table salt
a tablespoon in those quantities would be blurgh

edit: his mug even endorses it
http://www.maldonsalt.co.uk/Endorsements.html

Moominmamma

Thanks for the super quick replies everybody :T Having done a frantic bit of googling (been a hectic day and a I want these done and dusted in time to chill out in front of X Factor with a glass of wine!) It seems the salt should indeed be a tsp and the amount of butter seems a bit off too, so have gone with another recipe entirely for the pastry - fingers crossed!