Carries Pie Crust Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water until mixture forms a ball. Divide dough in half, and shape into balls. Wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
• Roll out dough on a floured counter. Don't over work it. Use as directed in pie recipe.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together the flour and salt. Cut in the butter to pea sized chunks.
• Place the egg and vinegar in a measuring cup and add cold water to measure 1/2 cup of total liquid. Pour this into the flour mixture and mix just until the dough can be made into a large ball.
• Divide dough into four equal portions. Wrap in plastic and store in the refrigerator. Dough may be refrigerated for up to three days or frozen for up to three months.

Steps:

• Dissolve the sugar and salt in 1/3 cup water and chill until cold.
• Pulse the flour and butter in a stand mixer until the mixture looks like coarse meal with some pea-size pieces. Add the water all at once and mix until the dough almost forms a ball. Divide the dough in half and flatten into two disks.
• Wrap each disk tightly in plastic wrap and chill until firm, at least 30 minutes or up to 3 days. You can freeze the dough for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before rolling.

Steps:

• Measure butter & shortening onto a plate, put into freezer for about 20 minutes.
• Measure cake flour, all-purpose flour, sugar, salt and baking powder into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse for a few seconds to mix.
• Take 1/2 of the cold butter and 1/2 of the cold shortening, put into processor with dry ingredients and pulse off and on for about 1 minute. Scrape down twice while doing this.
• Take remainder of the cold butter & cold shortening and cut in very briefly with the processor, leaving visible pea-sized chunks. Do not over process at this stage!
• In a measuring cup, mix egg yolk and vinegar together, add ice cubes and water. Let this get chilled, about 3 to 4 minutes.
• Remove mixed flours and shortening from processor, put into a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle approximately 4 to 5 tablespoons of this egg, water, vinegar mixture, a little at a time, mixing gently with a fork. The key to this is, you do not want a wet dough, and you do not want to overmix.
• Place this dough into plastic wrap or plastic bag, chill in refrigerator for a few minutes. (May also be frozen for a few weeks at this stage for future use).
• Remove from refrigerator and roll out. This makes absolutely the BEST pie crusts. I have won County Fair competitions with this pie crust. Double for making a 2-crust pie.

Steps:

• crush cheerios in a ziploc bag with a rolling pin and pour into a medium bowl.
• Stir in sugar with a fork.
• Pour in melted margarine and mix with a fork until evenly combined.
• Pat mixture into pie plate.

Steps:

• Cut crisco into flour and salt.
• Add cold water and mix (except for the vinegar and fried piecrust you add the egg and vinegar and water).
• ---------VINEGARPIE CRUST ---------.
• Mix everything together and roll out on floured surface.
• cut crisco into flour and salt.
• Add egg, water and vinegar.
• ----------FRIEDPIE CRUST --------.
• Cut flour into crisco and salt, add egg, water, and vinegar.
• Mix well and roll out on floured surface.
• Add the filling of your choice and fry in hot oil.
• Drain on papertowels.

Steps:

• In bowl of food processor, place flour, salt, and sugar; process once to combine all.
• Chill shortening briefly - about 3 minutes in the freezer will do.
• Break shortening into bits; distribute around steel blade in bowl.
• Process with 7 on-off pulses, until shortening is broken into dry ingredients well.
• Add ice water.
• Process with 7 more on-off pulses, or until dough forms into a ball.
• Roll out.
• Proceed with pie recipe.
• This recipe doubles well.

Steps:

• Combine first 5 ingredients in the *magical* pie dough transformer (food processor).
• PULSE these ingredients together only slightly. Too much pulsing causes excess friction which melts the butter and creates a dense, yucky pie dough.
• Gradually add the ice cold water while pulsing. Dough should just start to come together but will still seem somewhat dry. Pea-sized butter chunks are what makes the world go 'round.
• Pour/dump dough out, combine and knead gently & slightly, just to bring dough together.
• Divide into two rounds & freeze/chill until ready to use.
• Whenever possible, thaw dough to room temp., but you can cut frozen dough into large chunks & microwave CAREFULLY.
• Remember to declare your love to the dough -- this always makes the best pies.