Common Pie Crust
Ingredients
Directions
In a large bowl, mix the lard, flour, water, and salt until combined.
Roll out the mixture thinly on a floured surface.
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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