Favourite Homemade Pie Crust

Name: Favourite Homemade Pie Crust
Total time: P1H
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: flour; salt; butter; vegetable shortening; water

Submitted by stomovska

For a 9 inch pie Make sure you have cold ingredients, don’t overwork the dough-it will make it tough, add ice water GRADUALLY-too much makes the crust tough, not enough makes it crack. The dough should just form clumps.

YIELD

8 servings

PREP

20 min

COOK

0 min

READY

60 min

Ingredients

1 ⅓

ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR *

SALT *

TABLESPOONS BUTTER
cold, cut up

TABLESPOONS VEGETABLE SHORTENING

TABLESPOONS WATER
ice cold

Directions

In a large bowl, mix flour and salt. With a pastry blender, cut in butter and shortening until mixture resembles course crumbs. Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time until dough just forms clumps.

Shape dough into disk; wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes or overnight. If overnight, let it stand for 30 minutes before rolling.