Anyone a recipe for vegetarian shortcrust pastry

kah22

Hi I want to make a batch of vegetarian mince pies but, short of using all hard margarine, I have no idea what to use and in what quantities. Can anyone offer me a recipe?

My normal shortcrust pastry recipe would be: 225g plain flour, 60g Stork hard margarine, 40g lard. I mix up three or four batches at once and freeze and use as required

Kevin

Farway

Not tried, but there was a thread on here just the other day on mice pies, the pastry used Trex, which is hard veg fat, worth a search perhaps?

Oakdene

The Jus-Roll packs in supermarkets are Vegetarian.

candlelight_2013

There is a thread here somewhere called The best mince pies in the world, and they are made with Trex which, as has been said, is a vegetable fat.

Candlelightx

LameWolf

I make pastry with 5 oz flour to 2 oz butter, a smidge of either salt or sugar depending on whether it's for savoury or sweet goods, and enough tap water to bind. As long as you keep the flour to butter ratio at 5:2, you should be able to make whatever quantity you need.
HTH.

rach_k

The recipe here: https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/classic-mince-pies.html was very nice when I tried it last week. I don't think I'd ever used icing sugar in pastry before but it was lovely, plus quick to make.

BrassicWoman

buy Jusrol :-) it's even vegan!

kah22

rach_k wrote: »

The recipe here: https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/classic-mince-pies.html was very nice when I tried it last week. I don't think I'd ever used icing sugar in pastry before but it was lovely, plus quick to make.

An interesting recipe, thanks. I'll give it a shot and let you know how it turns out

Kevin

LameWolf

I shall also give it a try next time I need sweet pastry (99% of the pastry I make is for savoury dishes). I have some icing sugar that needs to be used up out of the way, this would be a good use of it.