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*CRUST:Pie Crust 101

Source of Recipe

buny


List of Ingredients

11 1/4 oz. all-purpose flour (King Arthur or try pastry flour)
1 Tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 lb. unsalted butter
1/4 cup Crisco vegetable shortening
3 oz. water
2 teaspoons lemon juice (tenderizes and inhibits browning)


Recipe

Cut butter and Crisco into 1/2 inch pieces, put in a bowl and put in freezer. Measure out water, add lemon juice and put in freezer. Put flour, sugar and salt in food processor. Pulse to combine. Have a cup of coffee while your fat and water gets real cold.

Add butter and Crisco to processor and pulse until fats are about the size of hazelnuts. Check every 2-3 pulses to make sure. Some pieces a bit bigger is ok. Add liquid and pulse until moist crumbs form. It should NOT come together in a ball. You should see some moist looking clumps of dough.

Dump it out into a cold stainless steel bowl. Take out processor blade. Gather the dough together in a ball, cut in half, and gently, but gently shape into 2 disks. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Each disk will make one 9" shell.

Take out dough, roll between floured parchment. It should be about 13-14 inches in diameter and 1/8 inch thick. Roll up on rolling pin and place over pie pan.

Gently, press dough into pie pan. DO NOT STRETCH DOUGH. Make your decorative Martha Stewart edge. Then put in refrigerator for 1 hour. Now you are ready to blind bake.