Name: Common Suet-crust for Pies
Ingredients: 1 lb flour; 6 to 8 oz suet; ¼ teaspoon salt; cold water

Common Suet-crust for Pies

Ingredients

1 lb flour
6 to 8 oz suet
¼ teaspoon salt
cold water

Directions

Chop the suet extremely small.
Mix the suet with flour and salt.
Add cold water gradually to form a firm paste.
Work the mixture until smooth.

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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Common Suet-crust for Pies