Tasty Pastry for Pies

Ingredients

• 125 g/4 oz plain flour, plus extra for rolling
• 125 g/4 oz wholemeal flour
• 150 g/5 oz butter
• 1 free-range egg, beaten

Directions

1. Put the flour and butter in a food processor and blend until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
2. Add the egg and pulse until the mixture just comes together as a dough. Bring the dough together and flatten into a round.
3. Put the pastry in the centre of a 20cm/8in springform cake tin and carefully ease it over the base and up the sides of the tin.