Egg White Pie Crust Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix together the salt and flour.
• With a pastry blender, cut in cold shortening until the size of peas.
• In a small cup, beat egg with a fork, add in the vinegar and water; whisk until well blended.
• Add the water/egg mixture gradually to the flour mixture.
• Shape into ball.
• Refrigerate 1 or more hours.
• Roll out dough, use for 2 (8" pie crust) OR 1 large deep dish pie crusts.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt until soft peaks form. Add vanilla, and slowly beat in sugar until very stiff and glossy. Spread mixture into a 9 inch pie plate to form a shell.
• Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 50 minutes. Turn oven off, and leave meringue in oven for 1 hour. Cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a food processor, process pecans on high until they are a fine meal. Add the Truvia, cinnamon & salt. Pulse a few times.
• While food processor is running on low, add the melted butter & egg white until dough is completely blended & clumped together.
• Lightly spray pie pan with Pam. Add the dough & cover with a piece of plastic wrap. Using your fingers or the bottom of a glass, gently press to cover the bottom & sides of the pie pan. Remove the plastic wrap.
• Bake the crust for 10 minutes. It will puff a bit in the middle but will flatten again as it cools. If you use this crust for a baked pie, when you bake it again cover the edges with foil so that it doesn't over-brown.

Steps:

• In a food processor, combine crumbs (either graham cracker or vanilla wafer), sugar and butter.
• Pulse until blended.
• Add egg white and pulse until evenly moistened.
• Press into a 9" pie plate.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
• Cool completely before using.

Steps:

• In a saucepan cook flour, cornstarch, sugar, salt,egg whites and milk until bubbling, stirring constantly; continue to cook and stir another 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add butter, white vanilla and almond extract, stir.
• Lay plastic wrap on pudding surface and allow to cool; pour into cool pie shell and chill, again covering surface with plastic wrap.
• When ready to serve top with whipped topping and sprinkle with ground almonds.

Steps:

• Pour flour and salt into a medium sized bowl.
• For sweet pies you can add the sugar and cinnamon at this stage, or you can add the onion and garlic powders for savory items as well.
• Cut butter into small pieces (I quarter my butter lengthwise and then cut off the pieces).
• Add butter to flour. Mix butter in until you have what resembles course meal.
• In small bowl, combine egg yolk with 2 tablespoons of the water and beat together.
• Add to flour and butter mixture and blend together until you have a firm ball of dough.
• Wrap in plastic cling wrap and refrigerate for 30-60 minutes.
• Remove dough and roll out evenly on either waxed paper or a floured surface.
• Press rolled dough firmly into pie plate, poking holes along bottom and sides with a fork to allow venting.
• Beat egg white with remaining tablespoon of water and brush the inside of your bottom crust with mixture. This helps the bottom crust bake flaky and remain crispy when baked with a filling.
• If using this to make a 2-crust pie, beat remaining egg white/water mixture with 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar until slightly foamy. Place a thick glaze of this on the top crust for sweet pies to get a lovely sweet golden brown flake on the top of your pie! For savory pies omit sugar but still glaze. It makes your pie look beautiful!
• Bake at 325 degrees for 15 minutes if only baking shell, and approximately 35 minutes when baking with filling. Crust is done when it is golden brown.