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Pie Crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pie Crust

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Flour a clean surface with reserved flour.

  2. Cut off about ¼ of the dough and roll it thin with a rolling pin.

  3. Place the rolled crust into a pie pan and press it down gently.

  4. Trim off the edges of the crust.

  5. Fill the pie with fruit and cover it with another rolled crust.

  6. Handle the crust as little as possible to keep the lard cold.

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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