Pie Crust Recipe with Lard
the basics
serves a pies worth
ingredients:
3 cups cake flour (if you got it, fresh flour is better)
a good dash of sea salt
1/2 cup lard
1/2 cup of butter
1 tablespoon of any sugar
ice cold water
equipment:
A bowl, ceramic if you got it, pastry cutter if you got, pie plate
instructions:
#1: sift the salt and flour to combine
#2: cut in the lard and butter with a pastry cutter (big fork or fingertips as an option if you got’em) until the mixture resembles gravelly cornmeal, less mix is "more better"
#3: sprinkle the ice water mixing with pastry cutter until the mixture holds together when pinched
#4: pack into two balls of slightly unequal size (bigger is for bottom crust, smaller is for the top) and chill for at least 30 minutes in a bowl covered
#5: on a lightly floured surface roll out dough into circle to 3/32 inch thickness
#6: transfer to 10 inch pie plate or smaller
#7: bake as the pie filling recipe suggests
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