Name: Pie Crust
Ingredients: 2 ½ tablespoons lard; ½ cup flour; ⅛ teaspoon baking powder; ¼ teaspoon salt; ice cold water

Pie Crust

Ingredients

Directions

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Keep the lard very cold and mix it thoroughly with a silver fork.
Add enough ice cold water to make the mixture stick together, mixing a little at a time until fully 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.