Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie.
Lemon meringue pie is a type of baked pie, usually served for dessert, made with a crust usually made of shortcrust pastry, lemon custard filling and a fluffy meringue topping.
Today, shortcrust pastry is used instead.
When making a shortcrust pastry, care must be taken to blend the fat and flour thoroughly before adding any liquid.
A typical flan of this sort is round, with shortcrust pastry.
The currant square is a square shaped cake with shortcrust pastry only on the top and bottom and up to an inch of currant filling.
Suet pastry is soft in contrast to the crispness of shortcrust pastry.
It is possible to make shortcrust pastry with self-raising flour, however.
