Pie Crust with Butter and Shortening This recipe has both butter and shortening (vegetable lard or Crisco). The butter lends the most delicious flavor to the pie crust. But a pie crust made completely of butter will be less likely to hold it’s shape. Therefore, we add shortening to this...
Related To: Pie Crust Recipes Teri Lyn Fisher Few things in the baked-goods canon are as impressive as tender, flaky homemade pie crust. The alchemy of pie dough — the transformation of flour, water, salt and butter (or lard, shortening or some combination thereof) into a unified whol...
The best part of apple pie filling is that you are skipping the crust (which is sad for many). Why is this great? Pie crust is made with a ton of butter (or lard) and flour and adds a bunch of calories to pie. I have never figured out how to make a crust that was low in c...
Half homemade tampalen pork lard and half unsalted butter. That’s the proportion of fat that I added to my pie crust and it was wonderful. I learned how to bake pies from Sister, and have used a version of her filling and crust for decades and it has never failed to satisfy family ...
Lard produces the flakiest crust, but processed lard can have a chemical aftertaste. Some butchers or farmers' market stands might sell freshly rendered lard. Some of the best pie crusts are made with a combination of fats: half butter for flavor, and half shortening or lard for flakiness. ...
150 g butter, or 75 g each butter and lard 75 g caster or icing sugar 80-100 ml cold water Egg wash: 1 egg beaten with ½ tsp salt Dice the fat and rub into the flour until breadcrumbs are formed (or use the flat beater on a machine, set to slow), then add the sugar, mix...
My favorite pie crust is made using butter and lard (shortening if lard is not available).Recipe linked here. If using storebought crust I highly recommend the type that you find in the refrigerated section that you unroll and fit into your own pie plate. ...
A more forgiving pie crust is one that is made with a mixture of butter and shortening. That way you get the flavor of the butter, with the easy flakiness that comes from using shortening. Some people use all vegetable oil, and some swear by lard. One of my favorite ways to make a...
So good! And you can bet that it’ll also be made with this coconut oil pie crust. Now, I have nothing against good ol’ butter or lard in a pie crust – but if you’re looking for a vegan pie crust or want a healthier version with lower cholesterol – this is it! Sometimes ...
Pie dough can also be made with shortening or lard, which are a bit less temperamental than butter, but we think the flavor of all-butter pie crust just can’t be beat. Should You Be Using Salted or Unsalted Butter for Baking?