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Pie Crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pie Crust

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine flour and salt.

  2. Rub the shortening into the flour until well mixed.

  3. Add cold water gradually, stirring until the mixture holds together.

  4. Handle the dough as little as possible to keep it tender.

  5. Roll out the dough and place it in a pie tin.

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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