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Hot Water Pastry

Source of Recipe

Good Housekeeping Cookbook 1972


Recipe Introduction

It's really hard to ruin this pastry. It makes the most tender crust you've ever tasted! This recipe works best if you use the waxed paper method for rolling out the dough.

List of Ingredients

1 cup minus 2 Tbs shortening
1/4 cup hot water
1 Tbs milk
2-1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt



Recipe

Place shortening in large bowl. Pour hot water and milk over the shortening. With a dinner fork, break up the shortening. Tilt bowl and beat quickly until the mixture looks like whipped cream. Pour flour and salt over shortening mixture and beat well with the fork, forming a dough that cleans the bowl. Divide into two parts and roll out between two sheets of waxed paper. Fit into pie shell and use as directed in recipe.

Makes enough pastry for a filled 2 crust 8" or 9" pie.