No Fail Pastry

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut in 8 pieces
• 1/2 cup cold vegetable shortening, cut in 8 pieces
• 1/3 cup cold water
• 2 tablespoons vinegar

Recipe

• 1 combine flour& salt in a bowl.
• 2 with your fingers or a pastry blender, cut in butter& shortening until mixture resembles bread crumbs.
• 3 combine wter& vinegar and sprinkle over flour mixture a little bit at a time, tossing together with a fork, until the pastry is moist enough to hold its shape when a little piece is pressed between your fingers.
• 4 gather pastry into a ball- it should not feel sticky.
• 5 flour the counter or pastry board lightly.
• 6 with a floured rolling pin, roll the pastry out into a rectangle approximately 8 x 12 inches.
• 7 fold the pastry into thirds (like a letter).
• 8 turn the dough so the open edges face you& roll out into a rectangle again; fold into thirds again.
• 9 repeat the step one more time.
• 10 cover dough with plastic wrap& chill for 1 hour.
• 11 for smaller pies, use 1/2 of the dough; for larger pies, use 2/3 or all of it.
• 12 unused dough can be frozen.
• 13 roll dough out to 1/4 inch for your pie.