To make a full-blooded puff pastry, you need time, you need patience, and you need precision. It's all about the lamination: it's all about building up the layers of butter, dough, butter, dough; as the butter melts, it creates steam, and that brings up the layers of the two doughs apart from each other, and that's what gives it the rise.
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Paul Hollywood was a contemporary English baker and chef. Paul John Hollywood is an English celebrity chef and television personality, widely known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off since 2010. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it