Puff Pastry uses roughly equal quantities of butter and flour. Strong bread flour has a high gluten content which gives added strength to the pastry, which it needs for all that rolling and folding. Lemon juice softens the gluten just enough to make the dough more pliable.

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I hate waste, especially with food, and even if I didn’t candied orange and lemon peel is so delicious, and has so many uses it really is worth the time and effort it takes to preserve. At Easter I use candied peel for Hot Cross Buns, Easter biscuits and Pashka (a traditional Russian Easter [...]

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