| Easy Peasy Beautiful Pie Crust |
Recipe type: dessert
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Prep time: 20 mins
Total time: 20 mins
This pie crust is easy to manipulate and tastes great. A little bit of vinegar helps keep gluten from forming (which is what makes pie crusts tough from overworking). Makes 1 pie crust
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all purpose flour.
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 0.5 cups of cold, cold shortening
- 2 tablespoons ice cold water
- 0.5 teaspoon of white vinegar + 2.5 teaspoons of ice cold water
Instructions
- Mix the flour, salt & sugar in a medium sized bowl. Then mix in the cold, cold shortening with your fingers, until the shortening is mostly pea sized. (Don’t mix it too much!).
- Mix up the water and vinegar, then add a tablespoon at a time to the flour + shortening. Mix with your fingers until it sticks together. (Don’t add more water than you need!). Wrap the dough in saran wrap and put in the fridge for 10 minutes to give the vinegar time to work its magic. Then roll out your pie dough. Hurray!
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