Pie Crust

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• half pound of butter
• add enough ice water to make stiff dough

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and flour together while dry; add enough ice water to make stiff dough.

2. 2

   Do not work the dough, roll with rolling pin three or four times, let it stand before using.

3. 3

   This will make four pies with top crust.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Book of Cooking and Pastry: A Collection of Original Receipts Gathered ... (1887) by C. F. Pfau, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PIE CRUST. One pound of flour, half pound of butter, rub the butter and flour together while dry: add enough ice water to make stiff dough

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