How to make shortcrust pastry by hand

If you’d asked me 15 years ago if I imagined myself authoring a bestselling cookbook (hello FIFTH print run!) that included multiple recipes involving pastry (choux! shortcrust! puff!), I’d have laughed long and hard.

15 years ago, I never imagined myself mastering pastry, let alone writing about it for the general public and - gasp - teaching classes on…