About pastel

 And you can imagine that there is only one recipe for the dough, my grandmother used to do it with butter, but I when I do I use a recipe that who was selling the dough cutters give a recipe with the cutters was oil in the place of the butter inside the dough and not to fry, the most homemade, the ones sold in the market probably is the most delicious recipe of the Earth, homemade pastel had a lot of people that make at home the dough I never liked because they are fluffy in place of being crunchy of my grandmother was much superior recipe than these ones, the man that sale the cutter had to make an effort to give a recipe that my mother liked, the others mothers recipes used cake yeast in the dough in my family is used cachaça but you can use another strong drink of your country like vodka, vodka for me cure even cut. I improve the recipe to be more close to the market ones I used citric acid, which I used to buy in plastic bottles in powder and give that acid flavour, the appearance is of salt. One other thing to use the dough my grandmother once made Alpes flowers, you got two disks of the dough opened like to be to do pastel and cut the border four times the same distance of each cut, cut in cross, and wet the centre of one disk and glue with the other by the centre and fry in a deep pan, after fried and dried a little of the oil, all the sides appear like a cup, and is put the filling in the cup of the top, my grandmother doesn't do that recipe with frequency because is beautiful but a closed pastel got less oil is more healthy. Rute Bezerra de Menezes Gondim