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Pie Crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pie Crust

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt.

  2. Cut cold lard into tiny pieces using a knife.

  3. Gradually add cold water while stirring with a knife until the mixture comes together.

  4. Handle the dough as little as possible when rolling it out.

  5. For a flakier top crust, roll out a strip of dough, place small bits of butter on it, sprinkle with flour, roll it up, and then roll out again.

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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