Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pie crust. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A more forgiving pie crust is one that is made with a mixture of butter and shortening. That way you get the flavor of the butter, with the easy flakiness that comes from using shortening. Learn how to make a flaky homemade pie crust in seven easy steps.
Pie Crust is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Pie Crust is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pie crust using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pie Crust:
- Get 2 1/4 Cups Flour
- Take 1 tsp Salt
- Get 3/4 cup Lard or Crisco
- Prepare 1/4 cup Butter
- Make ready 4-5 Tbsp Ice Water
Jump to the full Pie Crust Recipe. Or, watch our quick, straight-forward recipe video showing you how we make it. This homemade pie crust recipe yields a flaky tender crust with rich buttery flavor. It has simple, natural ingredients and uses only butter (NO SHORTENING).
Steps to make Pie Crust:
- Mix together flour and Salt. Take out 1/3 cup of the mixture.
- Cut Crisco and butter into remaining flour with a pastry cutter until the fat is the size of peas.
- Mix the ice water with the 1/3 cup flour mixture to form a paste. Add to the fat-flour mixture. With a fork mix and shape into a ball. Divide the dough into two parts, let rest a few minutes, then roll out.
- Notes written by my mother. I use the smallest amount of ice water to mix it into a ball. Adding a bit more butter will allow you to mix it into a ball without using any water. I use the pastry cutter instead of a fork, adding the least amount of water possible. I also cut the flour mixture until it is grainy, not the size of peas. Use plastic wrap on the bottom and top of the pie crust when rolling it out as not to add more flour.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, rotating at 7 minutes.
Also, learn how to form a fluted pie rim. Pie Crust. featured in The Perfect Pie. Pierce Abernathy, Jacqueline Tris & Claire King. I know homemade pie crust has a scary reputation, but it tastes SO much better than any storebought pie crust I've ever encountered, and it's really not so bad to make yourself. All butter flaky Pie Crust, with easy to follow concise steps AND a short video so you can nail your pie crust This is my "go-to" pie crust that I use for all things sweet such as Pecan Pie and Pumpkin Pie.
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