Recipe for Quick Puff Pastry

Ingredients for Quick Puff Pastry:
3 cup Unbleached, all-purpose flour plus
extra flour for rolling
dough
1 cup Bleached cake flour
1 1/2 tsp Salt
6 1/2 stk
Unsalted butter each stick cut
into 16 to 20 small pieces, chilled

1 cup Ice water - (abt)

Quick Puff Pastry preparation instruction:
On work surface, preferably a large
marble board, measure out flours and salt and combine. Add chilled butter
all at once, tossing to coat pieces in flour. Mixing rapidly with your
hands, flatten butter into lima bean-size pieces. Begin adding ice water, a
few drops at a time, lifting and turning dough until it begins to come
together. Using a dough scraper pat dough into a rough rectangle, 18 inches
long and about 6 inches wide, with short side facing you. Dough will be
messy and unmanageable. If butter softens too much during initial mixing,
transfer entire work surface to refrigerator and chill.
When dough has
come together in a rough rectangle, fold bottom third up to middle, then
fold top third over both layers, as if you were folding a letter. Scrape any
excess dough to side and flour work surface well. Turn dough package 90
degrees to right, so top layer of dough could open like a book. Using a
floured rolling pin, roll dough vertically into another 18- by 6-inch
rectangle, with short side facing you. Fold again in thirds. Wrap dough in
wax paper and refrigerate at least 20 minutes until dough is firm enough to
roll again. Turn 90 degrees to right. This is the second turn.
Repeat
rolling out, folding and turning 4 more times, refrigerating again after the
3rd and 5th turns; after 5th turn, chill at least 45 minutes, if possible.
Dough can be made ahead up to this point and refrigerated for 2 days, or
frozen. After 6th turn, dough is ready to roll out into desired
shape.
This recipe yields about 2 3/4 pounds dough, enough to roll out to
a 1/4-inch thick 12- by 36-inch rectangle.