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My Favorite Husband's A+ Pie Crust

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Four ingredients and one of them is water. And yes, Crisco.

Some very opinionated family members have decreed my husband's pie crust to be The Holiday Pie Crust, earning it the Asian Mom, cousin, and Aunty seal of approval.
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PSA: Requires refrigeration overnight, and recipe is for one single (bottom) crust.
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Ingredients

1 ½ cups flour
½t salt
​½ cup Crisco (half a stick, see above photo)
5-7T very cold water

What To Do

Mix flour and salt in a medium bowl. Cut Crisco using a dinner fork until all the flour is blended in to form pea-sized chunks. Sprinkle with water 1 tablespoon at a time.

Toss lightly until the dough forms a ball. Wrap with plastic and refrigerate overnight.

On the next day, (i.e., pie-baking day), flour rolling surface and rolling pin lightly. Roll into a circle enough for a 9” pie plate. Lay out on the pie plate and pinch edges.

Bake the crust beforehand if your pie recipe requires it.

Notes and Talking Story

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  • For a double crust pie, make two batches.
  • ​​As you can see by the photo, our crusts tend to be rather rustic.
  • Pecan pie is my husband's responsibility at Thanksgiving and Christmas until forever.​
  • Pecan and apricot pie do not require pre-baking the crust.

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