Never Fail Pie Crust
Ths pie crust is easy enough for beginners and tastes fantastic. Make and freeze to have quick and easy crusts for all your meals.
Ingredients
- 4 cups All-purpose flour Use pastry flour if you have it
- 1 Tbsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Salt
- 1 3/4 cup Lard substitute shortening if desired
- 1 Egg
- 1 Tbsp Vinegar apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup Milk
Instructions
- Combine flour, sugar, salt in a deep bowl
- Add lard or shortening and work it in with your fingers, a fork or a pastry cutter, until it is well incorporated. You can tell this step is finished when the lard is no longer distinguishable from the flour mixture and has become grainy looking. Don’t worry that some of the bits may be almost pea-sized. This is still fine.
- In a small, separate bowl, beat the egg and add the vinegar and milk. Mix until combined.
- Add the wet mixture to the flour mixture and stir until workable(meaning there are no pockets of egg throughout). The dough will be moist and lovely at this point. It still needs to be worked a bit before using though.
- Dump the entire contents onto a lightly floured surface(I use my trusty Tupperware pastry mat). Fold the dough onto itself a few times, until it all comes together evenly. You are not kneading, just working the moisture throughout, so there are no dry pockets. This should take 20 seconds-it doesn’t need much work.
- Do not worry about over kneading. This recipe will NOT get tough with excess handling.
- Shape into a log and divide into 5 even pieces. These are your pie crusts and can be frozen or used right away. That is all there is to it!
Notes
Double this recipe and have enough for five double crust pies!
Omit sugar and use this for pot pies.
Place dough balls in a gallon ziplock bag and freeze for later.