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Best Pie Crust Recipe

Ingredients

  • Makes a double crust pie
  • Ingredients:
  • ½ pound unsalted butter cubed
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice
  • ¼ cup cold water

Instructions

  • In a food processor pulse first 4 ingredients together until butter is coarsely blended with flour, mix together egg, lemon juice and water, slowly add to dry ingredients and pulse between additions all the liquid might not be needed. When a ball forms in the food processor the dough is ready to rest in the fridge. Form ball into a disk shape and refrigerate about 30 minutes.
  • After 30 minutes, remove dough from fridge. Using a little more than ½ the dough, roll out on plastic wrap or parchment paper into a circle larger than the pie plate. Use only a little flour to roll out dough as too much flour will make dough tough. Use the plastic wrap to help lift into pie plate.
  • Repeat for top crust.