Name: Hot Water Pie Crust
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; ½ cup boiling water; 1 cup shortening; 1 teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon baking powder

Hot Water Pie Crust

Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, combine the shortening and boiling water. Beat with a fork until creamy.
Sift in the flour, salt, and baking powder. Stir well to combine.
Roll out the dough. This recipe makes enough for 2 pies.

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.