SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Pastry 1, Chapter 1 (Know Your Pastry)

Plain flour, wholemeal flour, unsalted butter, white vegetable fat or lard (optional), mature Cheddar, English mustard powder, an egg, fine salt, cold water, baking parchment, cling film, a large bowl, a food processor (optional) and a rolling pin.

Plain shortcrust by hand (1 batch)
[ ] 200 g plain flour, plus extra for rolling
[ ] 1 pinch fine salt
[ ] 100 g cold unsalted butter, cubed (or 50 g butter and 50 g lard)
[ ] 3 tbsp cold water, plus a little more if needed

Shortcrust in a food processor (1 batch)
[ ] 200 g plain flour
[ ] 1 pinch fine salt
[ ] 100 g cold unsalted butter, cubed
[ ] 3 tbsp ice-cold water

Cheese pastry (1 batch)
[ ] 200 g plain flour
[ ] 1 pinch fine salt
[ ] ½ tsp English mustard powder
[ ] 100 g cold unsalted butter, cubed
[ ] 75 g mature Cheddar, finely grated
[ ] 1 egg yolk
[ ] 2 tbsp cold water

Wholemeal pastry (1 batch)
[ ] 100 g wholemeal flour
[ ] 100 g plain flour
[ ] 1 pinch fine salt
[ ] 110 g cold unsalted butter, cubed
[ ] 4 tbsp cold water, plus more if needed

For the experiments
[ ] Lard or white vegetable fat
[ ] Extra butter
[ ] Extra flour for rolling