Recipe

Excellent Pie Crust Recipe

	Gregsalvo / All my dishes 1 year, 7 months ago This recipe is pretty basic but the combination of butter & shortening retains the great buttery flavor but has a very nice "flakeiness" about it. Prep:112m Cook:4050m Servings:8	Gregsalvo
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Ingredients

5 cups of flour

2 teaspoons sugar

2 sticks of butter

8 ounces chilled Crisco shortening

3/4 cup plus 1-2 tablespoons of ice water or as needed

Pie filling of choice

Directions

In large bowl, stir flour and sugar together, then add butter & shortening. Blend with pastry blender or fork or your fingertips until well combined. The mixture should resemble course crumbs.

Add water and toss with a fork until water is well incorporated.

Gently gather dough and fold it over on itself briefly for a few seconds to distribute the fat evenly.

Divide it into 4 equal parts formed into disks, wrap and chill for an hour or more.

Remove first disk and roll out on lightly floured surface to fit a 9 - inch pie plate. Repeat the process for top crust or cut in strips for a lattice appearance.

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