Mom’s Pie Crust

Description

The very first thing I learned how to cook! This freezes beautifully; no well-equipped home is without a ball of pie dough in the freezer! Guaranteed to roll!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, chilled
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons white sugar
  • ⅓ cup ice water

Instructions

  1. Combine flour and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer. Cut butter into tablespoon pieces; add it to the flour and butter. Use the paddle beater to cut the butter and flour together. Alternatively
  2. this can be done by hand with a pastry blender.
  3. With the mixer on low speed
  4. or while stirring the mixture with a fork
  5. pour in the cold water. When the dough starts to clump
  6. and before it turns into a ball
  7. stop stirring.
  8. Lightly knead dough in the bowl until it forms a ball. Divide dough into two parts. Flatten each part into a disk
  9. and chill for about 30 minutes before rolling.

Servings: 16

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