Betty’s Two-Crust Pie Pastry requires 20 minutes of prep and 1 hour and 5 minutes total to make. This recipe serves 8. What You’ll Need 2 cups, plus 2 tablespoons Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup cold shortening or if you prefer, substitute cold butter, ...
Jump to Recipe This pie crust recipe is easy to make, but more importantly it tastes delicious. The combination of butter and shortening help the pie keep its shape without sacrificing any flavor and our secret ingredient pulls it all together like magic. MY LATEST VIDEOS This video cannot ...
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Butter or Shortening?I know there are some recipes out there that call for using shortening, this recipe is for how to make pie crust without shortening, we only use butter in our easy pie crust recipe.What is Blind Baking?Blind baking is when you are baking the crust without the filling...
How to Make Pie Crust Related To: How To Pie Crust Recipes Pie Recipes Basic Ingredients Homemade pie dough requires just a handful of ingredients — flour, butter (lard or shortening also work), salt, sugar and water — to achieve flaky goodness. Quick Shortcut You can make pie dough ...
Double Pie Crust Tips How can you make sure your double pie crust turns out flaky? Of the three most common fats used to make pie crust, shortening is known to create the flakiest pastry. (We even testedshortening, butter and lardto see.) Although, pie crust made with all shortening is...
Baking Tip: It might be wise to choose a crust that is all butter or a high ratio of butter in combination with another fat if the pie is definitely going to be eaten at room temperature or cold due to its low melting point. Vegetable Shortening Vegetable shortening is a partially hydroge...
Shortening Ice cold water Step-by-Step Instructions Step 1:Add the shortening to the flour and salt. Then using a pastry cutter work the shortening into the flour until it resembles cornmeal. Add the Ice Water Step 2:Beginning with one tablespoon slowly start to incorporate the water into ...
Pie crust is typically made with just a few ingredients: flour, water, salt and fat. The fat is usually butter or shortening, and occasionally a little bit of sugar or cinnamon makes its way into the crust for flavor. It’s a simple recipe and it should be simple to make, but the ...
Watch how to make this recipe. Dice the butter and return it to the refrigerator while you prepare the flour mixture. Place the flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix. Add the butter and shortening. Pulse 8 to ...