Pie Crust

This is an excellent pie crust. It is light, flaky, delicious, and pretty easy to make. It's not super healthy, but trans-fat free crisco helps.

Servings
2 pies
Prep time
20 minutes
Cook time
none
Author rating
7/10

Ingredients

1 cupcold water
1 poundcrisco or butter
1 egg
5 cupflour
1 tablespoonsalt
2 tablespoonwhite vinegar

Directions

  1. Mix flour, crisco, and salt together, until it looks like small peas.
  2. Put the vinegar and egg in a measuring cup, and full to 1 cup with water (so there's actually just less than 1 cup of water).
  3. Pour the vinegar/egg/water mix into the flour and mix thoroughly (while being careful not to overwork it)
  4. Roll out the dough fairly thin, and put in a pie plate. This pie crust can then be used with a variety of fillings.

Variations

A Slightly Healthier Pie Crust

This pie crust replaces some of the white flour with whole wheat flour. It gives the pie crust a slightly darker color, but it can't be tasted.

Ingredients

ReplaceWith
3 cupflour
Add
2 cupwhole wheat flour

Meals

This recipe goes well with others!

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  • Pumpkin Pie, Pie Crust
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  • Cherry Pie, Pie Crust
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  • Pie Crust
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  • Pie Crust, Strawberry Pie
    The pie version

Recipe provided via www.MeanMeals.com