Perfect Butter Pie Pastry

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces unsalted butter
• 9 ounces all-purpose flour or 9 ounces pastry flour
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup ice water

Recipe

• 1 cut the butter into 1/2" cubes.
• 2 place the flour, sugar and salt in your food processor.
• 3 pulse to combine.
• 4 add the butter and pulse until chunks the size of a pea remain.
• 5 slowly pour in the water, pulsing just until the dough begins to come together.
• 6 it will look like a shaggy mess.
• 7 remove from the bowl and knead lightly one or two times, then pat out flat and cover with plastic wrap.
• 8 chill 2-3 hours before using.
• 9 to use: cut the dough in half, roll out one section at at time.
• 10 after you have either fit it into a pie shell, or formed into squares for turnovers, make sure you chill the dough down hard again.
• 11 this dough does much better when it goes into the oven ice-cold.
• 12 it shrinks much less.
• 13 note: do not overwork this dough or you will not get flaky results.