Simple Way to Make Pie Crust in 11 Minutes at Home

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pie crust. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pie Crust is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pie crust using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Pie Crust:

1. Get 2 1/4 Cups Flour
2. Make ready 1 tsp Salt
3. Get 3/4 cup Lard or Crisco
4. Get 1/4 cup Butter
5. Take 4-5 Tbsp Ice Water

Pierce Abernathy, Jacqueline Tris & Claire King. Our favorite butter pie crust recipe that makes consistent flaky pie dough every time. Jump to the full Pie Crust Recipe. Or, watch our quick, straight-forward recipe video showing you how we make it.

Instructions

Instructions to make Pie Crust:

1. Mix together flour and Salt. Take out 1/3 cup of the mixture.
2. Cut Crisco and butter into remaining flour with a pastry cutter until the fat is the size of peas.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, rotating at 7 minutes.

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. Pie crust is not bread dough, and if you overwork the dough, the crust will become quite tough and difficult to handle. Be a minimalist when it comes to mixing the water into the flour. 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. A gluten free pie crust, you ask?

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