Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's basic puff pastry (feuilletage) recipe from 1914: equal parts flour and washed butter, salt and ice-cold water, with repeated rolling and folding in of butter in four rounds. Includes detailed guidance on keeping the work cold, baking with bottom heat, and use for patty shells, tarts and vol-au-vent.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 15 (falt i det fri)
The basic puff pastry recipe in the chapter "Hot and cold small dishes." Erken uses the same dough for patty shells, tarts, puff-pastry scallop shells and vol-au-vent, which are filled with fish, vegetables or a meat ragout. The dough made with equal parts flour and butter is the classic French feuilletage.
Combine flour and butter
Sift the flour onto the pastry board, make a hollow in the middle and put the salt there. Rub in 1/4 of the butter with your fingertips, or chop the butter and flour together with a knife until the mixture is fine and dry like flour.
Add the water
Pour the ice-cold water in carefully. Mix everything together well, but without kneading. Let the dough rest cold for 20 minutes.
First rolling out
Pat the dough out into a flat cake about 2 1/2 cm thick, then roll it out to 1 cm thickness.
Fold in the butter
Divide the remaining butter into three and roll each part into a log. Roll one of them out to 1 cm thickness, lay it over the dough, roll the dough up and let it rest cold for 1/2 hour. Repeat rolling out and folding in until all the butter is used up — 1/4 of the butter each time.
Keep the dough cold
Do not work in a warm kitchen. If the dough sticks, fold it up, place it in a napkin in a cold spot for 10 minutes — never directly on ice. Roll lightly and always away from you, and let the dough stand ice-cold after the last rolling.
Baking
The dough should be ice-cold when it goes into the oven. Bake with mostly bottom heat (about 220 °C (430 °F)) so the dough rises before it starts to brown; then raise the heat for a nice brown color. An oven too hot from the start scorches the dough before it has risen; an oven too cold lets the butter melt and the dough lose its shape.
Patty shells
Roll the dough out to 1/2 cm thickness. Quickly cut out round pieces with a glass or tin mold dipped in hot water. Brush a little egg white along the edge of one round and lay another on top; in the top one, first cut an opening with a small glass. The egg white must not run over the sides. Place a small piece of bread in the opening so the patty shell doesn't rise up into it; remove the piece once the shell has fully risen and baked. The small lids are baked separately, as they are done faster.
Tarts and vol-au-vent
For tarts, roll the dough thinner. For vol-au-vent, roll the dough 1 1/2 cm thick and cut it to a shape, preferably oval, with a knife dipped in hot water. Place the base on a sheet with a double layer of baking paper. Roll out a matching round of the same thickness and size, and cut off a 3 cm wide ring. Brush the edge of the base with cold water and press the ring lightly in place.
Baking the vol-au-vent
Set the finished vol-au-vent cold (preferably on ice), prick it and bake in the oven about 1 hour. From the rest of the dough make a lid decorated with leaves or figures of dough, fastened with a little cold water. Cool well and bake the lid about 25 minutes.
Measures converted to modern units (deciliters → dl, grams). The OCR has unclear fractions; the amounts are interpreted as 1/2 kg flour and 1/2 kg butter, in keeping with Erken's later reference to equal parts flour and butter. The steps are written in modern Norwegian, and a guideline oven temperature (220 °C (430 °F)) has been added since the original only describes bottom and top heat in a wood-fired oven.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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