Recipe and source notes

Unbaked Pie Shell Pastry

6 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
  • 7 tablespoons ice water

Make it step by step

  1. Put flour, salt, and Crisco in mixing bowl; blend with pastry blender until like corn meal. Add ice water and blend until not dry or too moist. Shape into ball and put on floured pastry board or cover. Roll out with rolling pin, keeping dough circular. Roll out to about 1/8 inch thickness and 2 inches larger than pie pan. Fold in half and put in pie plate with fold in center. Unfold and let it hang over side of pan and fit gently to pie pan. Tri

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Adapted from Foodista by Anonymous, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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