Ingredients

1 cup (about 4 1/2 ounces) all-purpose bleached flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) cold unsalted butter
1 large egg

Directions

To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, sugar,
salt and baking powder in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into
1-tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces of
butter. Using your hands or a pastry blender, rub the butter into the dry ingredients by
breaking it into tiny pieces, continuously pinching and squeezing it into the dry
ingredients. Be careful to keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the

bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the
butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and
no large pieces of butter remain visible. Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl and pour over
the flour and butter mixture. Stir in with a fork, continuing to stir until the dough
begins to hold together, but still appears somewhat dry. Scatter flour on the work surface
and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is
smooth.

To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in
work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1-second intervals to mix. Cut butter
into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1-second
intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and
no large pieces of butter remain visible, about 15 pulses in all. Add the egg(s) to the
work bowl and pulse 10 times or so, until the dough forms a ball. Scatter flour on the
work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times,
until it is smooth.

Press the dough into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough). Sandwich the
disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6-inch disk.
Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour