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Old Fashioned Pie Crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Old Fashioned Pie Crust

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place flour in a mixing bowl.

  2. Add lard and mix thoroughly with a silver knife until it resembles fine pieces.

  3. Add salt and enough ice cold water to hold the mixture together.

  4. Roll out the dough and place it in the refrigerator for a few hours.

  5. Roll out again to make a thin crust for the top and bottom of a pie.

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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