Sandra Paterson wrote:
There is a beautiful and highly regarded product made by Careme, in the Barossa Valley here in South Australia.
Their website http://www.caremepastry.com/default.asp shows a map of Australia with outlets in all (most?) states.
I make my own shortcrust pastry but I agree with you about the effort in making puff pastry!
BTW, on the subject of pastry making... I learned this from my grandmother when I was a child, and we never sweetened any pastry used for desserts as the fillings would be sweet enough. The same with scones and pikelets. So if anyone has a favourite recipe from pre-quit-sugar days, I would recommend trying it with no sugar at all.
Hello Sandra
thanks for the info on Careme butter puff pastry.......we got some this morning in South Sydney near where we live. I'm looking forward to using it..........but it does rather make the steak and kidney pie I'm planning to make, a bit pricey. The shop that sells it charges $12.00 for just one sheet!!!
A friend of mine told me I can get Pampas butter puff in Coles, she said it was rather expensive..........$5.50 for only three sheets and nearly fainted when I told her how much Careme costs. But she said that Pampas is very thin and maybe the Careme, which is much thicker can be thawed and cut into two and rolled out thinner. She said it must be very good for that price, but I think that as the shop we bought if from knows that they are the only one who sells it in the whole of South Sydney, they may feel they can charge a bit more for it.
cheers
Freda
