Egyptian Cooking A Practical Guide/Samia Abdennour 1998

Pastry, Basic Recipe (Agin)

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INGREDIENTS:
1 tablespoon active yeast (1 envelope) 1 teaspoon sugar 7-3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup oil



1 Cream yeast with sugar in 1/4 cup warm water and leave to bubble in a warm place. Sift flour and salt, add yeast and enough water to form a soft dough, and knead thoroughly, beating to allow plenty of air.
2 Cut up into balls the size of small marbles.
3 Combine melted butter with oil. Dip each small pastry ball in the oil, then spread thinly with fingertips on a smooth, greased surface. Reroll and spread again 2-3 times, moistening each time with melted fat. Flatten out on greased oven tin and let rise for about 1 hour.
4 A quicker way is to spread out the dough with a rolling pin and cut with a biscuit-cutter. This producess less-fluffy pastry.

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