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2020 Cookbook

Shaina’s Pie Crust

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Shaina’s Pie Crust, preserved in the Brown Family Cookbook 2020.

01

Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ cup flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ⅓ cup Crisco
  • ¼ cup cold water
  • 1. Mix flour and salt.
  • 2. Cut in crisco with pastry blender
  • 3. Sprinkle in water and turn flour over with fingers to wet it all - DON’T KNEAD IT,
  • just turn it over gently with fingers.
  • 4. Pat into a ball and roll out for a yummy, flaky crust
  • 5. Makes one crust. For a top + bottom crusted pie, double this recipe.

02

Method

  1. 01

    1 ¼ cup flour ½ tsp salt ⅓ cup Crisco ¼ cup cold water

  2. 02

    Mix flour and salt.

  3. 03

    Cut in crisco with pastry blender

  4. 04

    Sprinkle in water and turn flour over with fingers to wet it all - DON’T KNEAD IT,

  5. 05

    just turn it over gently with fingers.

  6. 06

    Pat into a ball and roll out for a yummy, flaky crust

  7. 07

    Makes one crust. For a top + bottom crusted pie, double this recipe.