Pie Pastry
2015-11-10 09:00:40
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Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces and chilled
- 3 Tbsp cold water
- 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
Instructions
- Combine flour and salt. Cut butter until the texture of coarse meal.
- Mix together water and lemon juice and add to flour. Blend until dough just comes together. Shape the dough into a disc and chill for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven as instructed within pie recipe. Divide dough in half.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1 piece of dough to 1/4 inch thick. Line a 9-inch pie pan with pastry leaving edges overhanging. Chill while preparing filling.
- Roll out second piece of dough a 1/4 inch thick. Place atop pie and eal and crinch edges of pastry.
- Bake as directed.
Notes
- Lattice Top
- Roll out second piece of dough to 1/4 inch thick. Using a pastry wheel or paring knife, cut 10 strips of dough 3/4 inch wide.
- To build the lattice top, place 5 strips side by side on top of the fruit filling, leaving 1/2 inch of space between them.
- Fold back three alternate strips of dough halfway back. Place a center cross strip laying over the 2 flat strips of dough. Return the folded strips to their flat position. Repeat with remaining strips of dough alternating between 2 and three strips.
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