Dutch Letters

Hi! It's certainly been a while since I last logged on, but Blogger forgot my password or something. Anyway, I created a new food called Dutch Letters. Dutch letters are a special kind of pastry made from flour, eggs, almond paste, sugar, and lots and lots of butter. You make the filling, seal the dough, and put it in an "S" shape. They're really good and tasty. It starts out as a rough puff pastry, which means that you cut the butter into small pieces and mix it into flour, add water, and make the dough into a ball. The chunks of butter will still be in the dough, not incorporated. Then you roll it out, cut it into strips, put almond filling in the middle, roll them up, brush them with milk, sprinkle with turbinado sugar, and bake for the most delicious treat ever.