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Family Pie-crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Family Pie-crust

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sift the flour and salt together.

  2. Cut the lard into the flour using a knife until well combined.

  3. Gradually add the water while chopping the mixture to avoid wet streaks.

  4. Do not knead with your hands.

  5. Sprinkle flour on a clean surface and flour the rolling pin.

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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