Plain Pie Crust

Ingredients

• one pound of flour
• one-half bound of butter
• three cups of sifted flour
• one cup of butter
• add cold water enough to make a stiff dough

Method

1. 1

   Rub flour and butter together, add cold water to make a stiff dough, roll out just enough for one plate.

2. 2

   This quantity is enough for two pies.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Pie Crust. Plain but good family pie crust is made with one pound of flour and one-half bound of butter, or three cups of sifted flour and one cup of butter, rub them well together, so that when you squeeze it in your hand it will remain in form; add cold water enough to make a stiff dough

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