Sugar Paste For Tartlets

Ingredients:
1 cup or 200 grams sugar
4 cups or 512 grams flour
½ cup or 120 grams vegetable shortening,
½ teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1 lemon

Procedure:
Sift flour on to baking board, make hole in center,
and put in grated lemon rind, salt, sugar, eggs, and vegetable shortening.
Mix the whole to a stiff pastry. This paste is used for the bottom layer of pies and to line tartlet tins of various kinds. It is excellent for turnovers.
Sufficient for thirty tartlets.