Plain Pie Crust

Ingredients

• 3 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of lard or lard and butter mixed
• Ice-water enough to mix so it can be rolled

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, lard, and salt together.

2. 2

   This part, the crumbs, will keep indefinitely in a covered bowl set in a cool place.

3. 3

   Take enough for one pie and add the water.

4. 4

   This quantity will make three pies.

5. 5

   Handle as little as possible.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Pie Crust 3 cups of flour. 1 teaspoon of salt. 1 cup of lard or lard and butter mixed. Ice-water enough to mix so it can be rolled

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