AMERICAN PASTE NUMBER 3

            10 oz flour                   1 tsp salt
            8 oz butter (cold)            1 large egg white

Combine flour and salt. Cut in four ounces butter. Mix in egg white by hand until dough barely holds. Form ball and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate one hour along with rolling board.

Flatten dough into rectangle. Divide half remaining butter into six pats, laying three on one side of rectangle. Fold over a third, and lay the remaining three on top, folding the remaining third over.

Roll again to rectangle and repeat with remaining butter. Divide into two squares, wrap, and refrigerate one hour. Press one into disc for 8- or 9-inch pie pan. Fill, and flatten remaining dough for top.

Adapted from “American Cookery” (1796). Discover more vintage recipes at the Padgett Sunday Supper Club (clubpadgett.com)!