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Whisk together starch with 1½ tablespoons water until no lumps remain. Add butter cubes to the starch mixture. Add eggs and salt. Whisk, breaking up any cubes of butter that have stuck together ...

Sieve all the dry ingredients together into a large, wide bowl. Toss the chilled butter cubes in the flour and rub them in by hand until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Make a well in ...

Line a 23cm/9in square cake tin with baking parchment. Combine the flour and butter cubes in a food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. (Alternatively, you can rub ...

Whisk until smooth. Remove from the heat. Add the butter cubes a few at a time, whisking until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth; set aside to cool. In large heatproof bowl ...

A stick of butter partially broken into cubes, resting on parchment paper on a brown wooden cutting board - Lizuca Hila / 500px/Getty Images ...