Lauren's Easy-roll Pie Crust

Total Time: 17 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups flour, chilled
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter-flavored crisco shortening
• 2 -3 tablespoons ice water
• flour, for rolling

Recipe

• 1 combine chilled flour and salt.
• 2 cut in shortening until you you achieve the appearance of little crumbs. this can be done using a pastry cutter (surprisingly fast and easy), a fork (much more difficult), a food processor (i haven't tried) or the dough hook of your kitchen aid mixer (my preferred method).
• 3 important: after this point avoid over-mixing or over-handling the dough (makes the baked crust too hard), and work quickly so that the dough is still cold when you go to roll it out.
• 4 sprinkle 2 tbsp iced water over your dough, then quickly but gently stir inches your dough should start to stick together and form into a soft ball.
• 5 if necessary, stir in another 1 tbsp iced water. you'll find this will be necessary if your dough isn't yet sticking together.
• 6 form your dough into a soft ball. sprinkle your rolling surface and your rolling pin with flour, roll out the dough, place in pie tin and crimp the edges.
• 7 if your pie requires a pre-baked crust: bake for 7 minutes at 425 degrees.