DIY Sweet Dough for Pies
- 1 1/4 cups flour, all-purpose
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 18 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons butter cold
- 1 large eggs
- To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to mix.
- Cut butter into 1 tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients.
- Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter.
- Then using your hands or a pastry blender, break the butter into tiny pieces and pinch and squeeze it into the dry ingredients.
- Occasionally reach down to the bottom of the bowl and mix all the ingredients evenly together.
- Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse ground corn meal and no large pieces of butter remain visible.
- Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl and pour over the flour and butter mixture.
- Stir in with a fork until the dough begins to hold together, but still appears somewhat dry.
- Scatter a teaspoon of flour on the work surface and scrape the dough out onto it.
- Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth and uniform.
- If it's warm, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let rest in the refrigerator for 1/2 hour or more.
- Press into a pie shell, tart shell or roll out as desired to use in your favorite recipe.
flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter cold, eggs
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/diy-sweet-dough-for-pies-46475 (may not work)