This item is something that no baker should be without. Whether you're planning a quiche crust, shortbread cookies, or even meatloaf, the pastry blender is your best friend.Useful Tools: Pastry Blender
How many times did you have to read this line before someone finally explained it to you?: "Cut butter into flour."
THAT is what you use a pastry blender for! AH-HA!
Following your recipe, you'll want to put the measured flour in a bowl first, then measure out the correct amount of butter for the recipe. Cut it into slices and drop them haphazardly into the flour.
Grab your pastry blender!
Squish the butter by pressing down ruthlessly, lift pastry blender, and deliver another blow. Keep doing this, and move some of the flour around, until you stop seeing the chunks of butter. Eventually, what you will end up with is a moist-looking flour that's kinda lumpy.
Success!
IN STORES:
K-Mart: Wilton Pastry Blender
Bed Bath & Beyond: OXO Good Grips; and Wilton Pastry Blender
(NOTE: I didn't actually LOOK at these stores, but they are supposed to have them in stock.)
ONLINE:
Pastry Blender 5.25"x4.5"
"Pasty Pro" Pastry Blender Sale: $14.99 (regular $19.99)
"Pasty Pro" Pastry Blender by Kitchen Innovations
Baker's Pastry Blender by Wilton
Pastry Blender (5-in.) Good Grips by OXO
Pastry Blender (5.25-in.) by Cuisipro
Stainless Pastry Blender by Johnson-Rose Corp.
2 comments:
I never thought to use it for meatloaf. What a great idea!!! I'll try it next time.
Amy
Yeah, I was just so sick and tired of my hands being freezing cold after mixing meatloaf--cold meat, cold eggs--that I decided to give it a try. Voila! It worked!
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