Amazingly Easy Pie Crusts

Mille® 's Note:

This is the EASIEST way to make a quick two-crust pie crust! Forget measurements and pastry blenders! Whatever amount of flour you need, you then take HALF that amount for your lard/margarine amount. Motto "Half as much fat as flour." Do as the English do and use half lard and half butter for the shortening.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 2.0 pie cru ...

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup lard
• 1 cup unsalted butter or 1 cup margarine
• 5 tablespoons cold water

Directions:

1. Cut the butter into cubes, and then toss the butter and lard into flour.
2. Using your hands, crumble it up into a fine, pebbly, grainy sort of dough.
3. Add water, enough to make soft dough.
4. Form into a ball, and chill for about an hour.
5. When chilled, knead it a couple of times on a floured surface.
6. Roll it out, and proceed to fill with your choice of pie fillings.

Reviews

[Marianna U. Kretschmer]

Pretty good, and quite easy to prepare. Not as thin or flaky as I would have liked, but it did nicely just the same. Marianna U. Kretschmer