Ingredients
Instructions
- Measure the flour carefully and put it in a medium-sized bowl. Add the dash of salt and stir it with a fork.
- Pour the oil in and stir and "cut" it with a fork until you've got clumps varying between pea-sized and lima bean-sized.
- Distribute the cold water over the mixture and stir and mash with the fork just until it all balls together.
- Wipe your countertop with a damp cloth and spread a piece of wax paper on it. The paper should not slide -- if it does, dampen the counter a LITTLE more.
- Form a little more than half of the dough into a disk and place it on the wax paper. Cover it with another piece of wax paper.
- Roll the dough with a rolling pin from the center out in all directions, keeping it as circular as possible.
- Periodically do the following:
- peel off the top piece of wax paper, then lay it gently back on top of the crust.
- using the bottom piece to lift it, turn the crust over, peel off that piece of wax paper, lay it back down again and continue rolling.
- Continue the peel-replace-flip-peel-replace technique until your crust is about two inches bigger than your pie pan. IMPORTANT: Peel-replace-flip-peel -- then use the bottom piece of paper to lift the crust and place it over your pie pan. Gently peel off the wax paper.
- Use the same technique to roll the top crust.
- As you prefer, you can leave the top crust whole, cut it into strips for lattice, or whatever.
- OPTIONAL: Brush the top crust with milk and/or sprinkle it with sugar.
- Bake according to your pie directions.
- BON APPETIT!