The New Crisco Pastry

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls flour
• 1 tablespoonful lemon juice
• 34 cupful Crisco
• Sufficient cold water to hold
• 1] egg mixture together
• 34 teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour and salt into basin.

2. 2

   Flour blade of knife, and chop Crisco into flour, being careful to keep flour between blade of knife and shortening.

3. 3

   When mixture looks like meal, add gradually, egg well beaten and mixed with lemon juice.

4. 4

   Roll pastry into ball with knife.

5. 5

   May be used at once, but will be improved if allowed to stand in cool place for one hour.

6. 6

   Should be rolled out once and handled as lightly as possible.

7. 7

   May be used for sweet or savory dishes.

8. 8

   Bake in hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

The New Crisco Pastry 2 cupfuls flour 1 tablespoonful lemon juice 34 cupful Crisco Sufficient cold water to hold 1] egg mixture together 34 teaspoonful salt

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