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Pie-crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pie-crust

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt.

  2. Cut the lard into the flour using a knife until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

  3. Gradually mix in cold water, using as little as possible to form a stiff dough.

  4. Roll out the dough and place it into lightly floured pie pans.

  5. This recipe makes two covered pies or four without covers.

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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