Perfect - Pie Crust
From tuilelaith 14 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 1
Here is the pie crust to go with the apple pie.
Ingredients
- 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter shopping list
- 3 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt shopping list
- 1 tablespoon sugar shopping list
- 1/3 cup very cold vegetable shortening shopping list
- 6 to 8 tablespoons (about 1/2 cup) ice water shopping list
How to make it
- MAKES: two 10-inch crusts.
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- Dice the butter and return it to the refrigerator while you prepare the flour mixture.
- Place the flour, salt and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix.
- Add the butter and shortening.
- Pulse 8 to 12 times, until the butter is the size of peas.
- With the machine running, pour the ice water down the feed tube and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball.
- Dump out on a floured board and roll into a ball.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Cut the dough in half.
- Roll each piece on a well-floured board into a circle, rolling from the center to the edge, turning and flouring the dough to make sure it doesn't stick to the board.
- Fold the dough in half, place in a pie pan and unfold to fit the pan.
- Repeat with the top crust.
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- Photograph by Quentin Bacon
The Rating
Reviewed by 3 people-
Sounds great. I have always used shortening in my pie crust but will now try this combo with the butter.
Thanks for the nice post.
Valerie
valinkenmore
in Malott loved it
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What a lovely looking crust! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
annieamie
in Los Angeles loved it
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Love flaky pie crusts.. FIVE to ya! :+D
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in Muskoka loved it
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