Step 1 of 6
Eccles Cakes
Step 1 of 6
Dice the 250g butter and freeze until very hard. Tip the flour into a food processor with half the frozen butter and pulse to fine breadcrumbs. Add the lemon juice and 100ml iced water and pulse to a dough. Add the remaining frozen butter and pulse a few times until the dough is heavily flecked with butter — do not overdo this.
— The butter flecks are what makes the pastry flaky — stop as soon as they are mixed in.