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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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My Grandma taught me to make this pie crust, and now that she has Dementia, I pride myself on being almost as good as hers! She's almost 95 and I'm 32, so I've got a few years more to get it right ;) Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour |
1 teaspoon salt |
1 1/4 cups shortening |
8 -10 tablespoons very cold ice water |
Directions:
1. Mix flour and salt in large bowl.
2. Cut in shortening until crumbly.
3. Add about 4 tablespoons of very cold ice water, and gently mix with flat side of spoon. Add in 4 more tbsp, doing same.
4. If dough is mostly holding together, stop adding water, if still crumbly add 1 tbsp, then 1 more if still not holding. (You do not want a solid ball, it should remain a little crumbly).
5. If necessary add a little more water to get it to right consistency(hold).
6. Once it will hold in a ball, cut in half and roll out to about 1/8 thick.
7. Lay in 9 pie plate as base crust.
8. NOTES:1) DO NOT HANDLE WITH YOUR HANDS anymore than you need to make the ball and to flip when rolling. 2) the colder the water the better, I run my tap until it is really cold put it in a glass measure cup with a couple ice cubes then set in freezer until I need it. The colder the water and the less you handle it, the flakier the crust!
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