Crisco's Pastry Method
- 34 cup Crisco
- 2 14 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 14 cup water
- Sift flour and salt into bowl.
- Take out 1/3 cup flour.
- Cut Crisco (with knives, fork or blender) into remaining flour until the pieces are the size of small peas.
- Mix 1/4 cup water with 1/3 cup flour (taken out from above) to form paste.
- Add flour paste to Crisco/flour mixture.
- Mix and shape dough into a ball.
- Divide the dough into two parts.
- Place one portion on a pastry canvas or board which has been dusted with 1 tablespoon flour.
- Roll the dough to 12 inches in diameter, rolling with short, light strokes, from the center to the edges.
- Place in pie plate, trim the edges with a knife,even with the edges of the pie plate.
- Roll the other half of dough.
- Cut or prick small steam vents.
- Place on the filled pie, and trim the edges 1/2 inch beyond the edge of the pie plate.
- Seal edges.
- (I use left hand index finger and right hand, thumb and index fingers, interlocking with each other.)
- Bake in oven at the temperature recommended for the pie filling.
crisco, flour, salt, water
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/criscos-pastry-method-410604 (may not work)