Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pie crust. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

A more forgiving pie crust is one that is made with a mixture of butter and shortening. That way you get the flavor of the butter, with the easy flakiness that comes from using shortening. Learn how to make a flaky homemade pie crust in seven easy steps.

Pie Crust is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Pie Crust is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pie crust using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pie Crust:

1. Take 2 1/4 Cups Flour
2. Prepare 1 tsp Salt
3. Prepare 3/4 cup Lard or Crisco
4. Take 1/4 cup Butter
5. Prepare 4-5 Tbsp Ice Water

It has simple, natural ingredients and uses only butter (NO SHORTENING). Also, learn how to form a fluted pie rim. When making any pie crust the egg and ice water should never be combined together hence the reasoning for everyone's comments about the dough. I know homemade pie crust has a scary reputation, but it tastes SO much better than any storebought pie crust I've ever encountered, and it's really not so bad to make yourself.

Steps to make Pie Crust:

1. Mix together flour and Salt. Take out 1/3 cup of the mixture.
2. Cut Crisco and butter into remaining flour with a pastry cutter until the fat is the size of peas.
3. Mix the ice water with the 1/3 cup flour mixture to form a paste. Add to the fat-flour mixture. With a fork mix and shape into a ball. Divide the dough into two parts, let rest a few minutes, then roll out.
4. Notes written by my mother. I use the smallest amount of ice water to mix it into a ball. Adding a bit more butter will allow you to mix it into a ball without using any water. I use the pastry cutter instead of a fork, adding the least amount of water possible. I also cut the flour mixture until it is grainy, not the size of peas. Use plastic wrap on the bottom and top of the pie crust when rolling it out as not to add more flour.
5. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes, rotating at 7 minutes.

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