I have never made pastry as it's one of the last bastions of Mrs Steve's kitchen endeavours. She won't let me have a go. We slummed it on omelette and chips tonight (spuds cut into chunks, skin on, parboiled, baked in the hottest possible oven in groundnut oil for 25 minutes).   She has hers plain, I stick a heap of Parmesan in mine. Gotta be three eggs, gotta be done in butter, gotta be done hot and fast.