This streamlined process for making Danish dough gives you flaky, crisp, buttery pastry with a fraction of work that the traditional method requires. The only trick to this recipe is planning for the considerable resting time. Break up the work over a few days to simplify the process. If you don’t have a food processor, cut the butter into 1/4-inch pieces and chill until firm. Fold the cold butter pieces into the flour mixture and continue with the recipe as written. If you are using this dough to make our pear and almond Danish braid, add 1 teaspoon (2 grams) coarsely ground fresh cardamom to step 1, along with the flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Featured in: Danish At Home: The Easier Way.
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1 1/2 cups/6 3/4 ounces/192 grams bread flour plus more for the work surface and the rolling pin
2 tablespoons/24 grams granulated sugar
2 teaspoons/6 grams active dry yeast
3/4 teaspoon/3 grams kosher salt
14 tablespoons/198 grams cold unsalted butter (1 3/4 sticks), roughly cubed
1 large egg
1/4 cup/60 milliliters cold whole milk
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