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Flaky Pie Dough recipe

 

Yield

12 servings

Prep

30 min

Cook

0 min

Ready

1 hrs

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
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¼ teaspoon salt
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teaspoon baking powder
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8 tablespoons butter
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2 tablespoons water
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
296 ml all-purpose flour
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1.3 ml salt
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0.6 ml baking powder
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1.2E+2 ml butter
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3E+1 ml water
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Directions

To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, salt and baking powder in a mediumsized mixing bowl and stir well to mix.

Cut butter into 1 tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients.

Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter.

Then using your hands or a pastry blender, break the butter into tiny pieces and pinch and squeeze it into the dry ingredients.

Keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together.

Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarseground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible.

Sprinkle the minimum amount of water over the butter and flour mixture and stir gently with a fork the dough should begin holding together.

If the mixture still appears dry and crumbly, add the remaining water, 1 teaspoon at a time for the smaller quantity of dough, a tablespoon at a time for the larger quantity, until the dough holds together easily.

To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, salt and baking powder in work bowl fitted with metal blade.

Pulse 3 times at 1second intervals to mix. Cut butter into 1 tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl.

Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarseground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible about 15 pulses in all.

Scatter the minimum amount of water on the butter and flour mixture and pulse 5 or 6 times the dough should begin holding If the mixture still appears dry and crumbly, add the remaining water, 1 teaspoon at a time for the smaller quantity of dough, one tablespoon at a time for the larger quantity, until the dough holds together easily.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and form it into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough).

Sandwich the disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6inch circle.

Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour.



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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 25g (0.9 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 11461% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 8g 12%
Saturated Fat 5g 24%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 20mg 7%
Sodium 103mg 4%
Total Carbohydrate 3g 3%
Dietary Fiber 0g 1%
Sugars g
Protein 3g
Vitamin A 5% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 1% Iron 3%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 
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