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

Butter pastry of flour, water, egg, cognac and butter, rolled and folded in many turns with long rests, shaped into two bases and a ring, brushed with egg white and baked into vol-au-vent. From Erken's Stor kokebok (1949), p. 24.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1949-utg. s. 24 (falt i det fri)
Erken describes an elaborate pastry that can also be used for pâtés and tarts, and suggests fillings of chicken, fish balls, lobster or mushroom stew.
Make the dough
Stir water, egg and cognac into the sifted flour to a smooth dough. Work it quickly and let it rest for 20 minutes.
Enclose the butter
Dry the washed butter in a cloth. Roll the dough into a round cake. Put the butter in the middle, fold the edges over so the butter is fully covered, and let rest a quarter of an hour.
Roll and fold
Roll the dough out carefully to a square about 0.5 cm thick. Fold so the edges meet in the middle, fold one half over the other lengthways and then into three layers. Roll out to an oblong again. Repeat 4 times and let the dough rest 3/4 hour. Roll 4 more times and rest 1 1/8 hours. Repeat this 2 more times. Finally let the dough rest 1 hour.
Shape and bake
Roll the dough into two bases 1.5 cm thick and place them on a tray. Brush with egg white, but not the edge. Cut one base into a ring 4-5 cm wide and lay it on the bottom base. Brush carefully. Bake to a nice golden brown in a hot oven (about 220 C). Cut leaves or other shapes from the trimmings, brush, bake and use as decoration over the filling. You can also bake a whole lid.
Fill
Fill with chicken, fish balls and lobster, mushroom stew or whatever you like.
Old measures converted to dl, half a kg to 500 g. 'Hot oven' is interpreted as about 220 C. The original gives no quantity for the egg. Total time is a rough estimate.
Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note on Modernised
Del. omregnet til dl, ½ kg til 500 g. «Varm ovn» er tolket som ca. 220 °C. Eggmengden er ikke oppgitt i originalen. Total tid er et grovt anslag.
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