Grandmother's Super Flaky Pie Crust
Total Time: 45 mins
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup margarine, softened
- 3 tablespoons water (as needed)
Recipe
- 1 preheat oven to 350 f degrees (fahreinheit).
- 2 pour flour into medium bowl, add margarine using pastry blender (or crisscrossing with knives) until lumps are slightly smaller than pea-size.
- 3 add water. mix gently with fork until dough comes away from the sides of bowl. (you may need more water) be very gentle, and try not to mix too much.
- 4 transfer half of dough to a sheet of wax paper lightly sprinkled with flour. sprinkle a little flour onto top of pie dough.
- 5 cover pie dough with another sheet of wax paper.
- 6 roll out so the pie crust is level, and not too thick in one place, or too thin in another. (about 11 or 12 inches in diameter).
- 7 peel off top layer of wax paper from dough, and place pie pan on top of dough. carefully slide your hand underneath bottom layer of wax paper, and flip.
- 8 then,carefully peel the wax paper from pie dough, and ease into pan.
- 9 repeat steps 4-8 with other half of dough.
- 10 bake for 15 min, or so or until golden brown in color.
- 11 fill with any pie filling!
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