Flaky Pie Crust

Submitted by Vseward Chef-V

"The ingredients sound odd, but this does make a great flaky pastry crust for pies."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 2 pie crust
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• Perfect Pie Crust

• 4 cups unsifted flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt

• Combine in bowl and add

• 1 3⁄4 cups shortening (I prefer chilled butter) or 1 3/4 cups butter (I prefer chilled butter)

• In small bowl combine

• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 large egg
• 1⁄2 cup cold water

directions

1. Mix flour, sugar and salt with fingers or fork till corse mill.
2. Combine two mixtures with fingers or fork just until barely moistened. If you over combine you will make it tough and lose flakiness.
3. If it looks under stirred and falls apart then you're there! Tightly wrap it in plastic wrap (it will continue to combine by itself while wrapped) and chill for half hour.
4. Flour surfaces before rolling out.

Reviews

[Kitaye]

I used frozen butter and grated it in to the flour. The dough was easy to work with the first day and even easier after being chilled for 24hrs. I used theis to make vegetable turnovers, fruit and cream cheese pastries, and apple pie, and with the last bit of dough I made meat turnovers. They all turned out perfect. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[nancyal]

this is a great recipe which i have made for years. my recipe is exactly the same, but is divided into 5 portions. each portion is always enough for a pie crust. this dough may be made ahead and kept in the refrigerator for 3 days. this also freezes well.

 

[B.A.Baxter]

I've been using a pie crust recipe for 40 years and decided to find a new one. This one turned out excellent, just what I was looking for. I'll probably use it for the next 40 years.

 

[CRouech]

The comments about it being dry and crumbly when you work with it are true, but it made a delicious flaky crust. I used shortening becasue I was out of butter. I think with butter it would have been divine.

 

[Rosalie in Pa.]

This is the best pie crust that I have ever tasted!! I really appreciate a good recipe like this one. I gave a friend of mine a piece of my apple pie and she said that she thought that her mother made the best crust, but this one tops it by far. My family and I love it and will use it always. Thanks Rosalie from Pa.