Never Fail Pie Crust
Ingredients
Directions
In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
Dissolve lard in boiling water.
Mix the lard mixture into the dry ingredients until well combined.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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