Best Pie Crust Recipes

Homemade Pie Crust Recipe

Ingredients For This No fail Pie Crust Recipe

* 3 cups of unbleached white flour

* 1 1/3 cups of non-hydrogenated shortening

* A pinch of sea salt

* 1 egg, beaten

* 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar

* 5 tablespoons of cold water


Directions For This Easy Pie Crust Recipe

Mix the flour and salt together.

Add the shortening and work it in with a pastry blender or two knifes. The pastry blender makes this task much easier and faster as well.

In a different bowl, put the egg, the water and the vinegar. Mix well.

Pour the water-egg mixture in the flour and mix with a fork. When mixing with a fork is no longer effective use your hands. Continue to mix until you have a nice soft round ball.

Place your dough in a bowl with a plastic over it - a dish towel works as well. Let sit for 30 minutes and up to an hour. Some cooks like to place it in the fridge. If you chose to do so, I would suggest you take it out for about 5 minutes before you try to roll it.

I - personally - never had much success rolling pie crust right out of the fridge.

Makes 2 crusts.

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 Easy Pie Crust Recipe

Ingredients For This Simple Pie Crust with Butter

• 2 1/2 cups of unbleached white flour

• 1 cup of cold butter cut in little pieces

• A pinch of sea salt

• 1 egg, beaten

• 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar

• About 3 to 5 tablespoons of cold water

Easy Pie Crust Recipe By Hand

Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl.
Add the cold butter in pieces and with your fingers mix until the flour/butter mixture is like "sand" in texture.
In a separate bowl, mix the beaten egg with the vinegar and the water.
Add to the flour mixture.
With a fork mix all the ingredient and when that is no longer effective, use your hands to mix the dough until it forms a nice smooth ball.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes and up to one hour.
Roll out gently on a floured surface.
Makes 2 crusts.

With a Stand mixer

Mix the flour and salt together in the stand mixer bowl.
Add the cold butter in pieces and turn the mixer on at low speed until the butter is mixed with the flour.
In a separate bowl, mix the beaten egg with the vinegar and the water.
Add to the flour mixture.
Turn the stand mixer on until all the ingredients are well blended into a nice smooth dough.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes and up to one hour.
Roll out gently on a floured surface.
Makes 2 crusts.

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