/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I don't expect the "crust" to be very good.

My grammies recipe is a 2:1 pastry flour to shortening ratio, by weight, and some salt like half a teaspoon for a large pie crust.

Sift flour, cut cold shortening into chunks into flour (i know shortening, you could use cold butter to if you're afraid) then chop up the shortening into tiny rice grain sized bits of flour and shortening(i use three knives elasticed together) then I add ice water by the tablespooful and press it all together, but if you are a retard and mix it too much your crust is going to be hard and not as flakey. Anyway if you dont fuck this up and you combine it into two balls you can roll it out (use pastry flour to avoid sticking) I roll it out onto wax paper glued to my counter by some water. Then when its rolled out you can use the paper to help lift it off and onto your rolling pin. put it into your pie plate, add fillings etc, then do the top crust. glue two crusts together with water and finger pressure, then cut some cool shit in the top crust to let the steam out and show off your autism.