A long, long, long time ago (looonngg) I came across a recipe for fat free pastry online.
Although I remember the instructions and ingredients (though not the quantities or temperature setting for the oven) I just cannot find the website any more and it's quite possible that the site has long ago gone.
Since it would be a shame to lose the recipe entirely from the web, I figured I'd pop it on here with all credit to the original recipe creator whomever they may be...
Ingredients:
Flour
Salt or Sugar
Apple (e.g. Bramley)
Vodka
Peel, core and chop the apple.
Cook it down to a puree.
Add the vodka and mix.
Allow it to cool so it can be touched but still warm
Add this mixture to the flour and salt/sugar.
Knead into a pastry dough.
At this point you can put it in the fridge, I never bothered.
I can't remember the correct temperature for cooking it, but I do remember the first time I tried it the recipe worked perfectly and I was very impressed.
The next time I must have set the oven too high and the result was an inflated biscuit (tasted okay but was lacking a lot of substance).
In trying to find the original site again I see there are now a couple more truly fat free recipes about, however they both rely on baking powder:
recipes.bethybooth.com
recipes.sparkpeople.com
Although I remember the instructions and ingredients (though not the quantities or temperature setting for the oven) I just cannot find the website any more and it's quite possible that the site has long ago gone.
Since it would be a shame to lose the recipe entirely from the web, I figured I'd pop it on here with all credit to the original recipe creator whomever they may be...
Ingredients:
Flour
Salt or Sugar
Apple (e.g. Bramley)
Vodka
Peel, core and chop the apple.
Cook it down to a puree.
Add the vodka and mix.
Allow it to cool so it can be touched but still warm
Add this mixture to the flour and salt/sugar.
Knead into a pastry dough.
At this point you can put it in the fridge, I never bothered.
I can't remember the correct temperature for cooking it, but I do remember the first time I tried it the recipe worked perfectly and I was very impressed.
The next time I must have set the oven too high and the result was an inflated biscuit (tasted okay but was lacking a lot of substance).
In trying to find the original site again I see there are now a couple more truly fat free recipes about, however they both rely on baking powder:
Fat Free Pastry - Bethy Booth's Low Fat & Healthy Recipes
A surprisingly good replacement for traditional pastry.
Jam Tarts ~ Fat Free Pastry Recipe
Made with fat free pastry that can be used for many different recipes.The pasty is different to your normal butter pastry but you have to compromise somewhere if you want to cut out the fat and these are a nice little treat without to much guilt.You can use any jam you like, try sugar free jam...
recipes.sparkpeople.com
