Pastry With No Trans Fat

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cold butter, cubed
• 1/3 cup ice water (or more)

Recipe

• 1 whisk flour with salt in a large bowl.
• 2 using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until in coarse crumbs with a few larger pieces.
• 3 stirring briskly with a fork, drizzle ice waterover flour mixture until pastry holds together, sprinkling dry spots with more water, if necessary, 1 tbsp at a time.
• 4 divide pastry in half, pressing into discs.
• 5 on generously floured surface, roll 1 disc out to a scant 1/4 inch thickness.
• 6 roll around rolling pin; unroll over 9 inch pie plate, gently pressing dough to fit.
• 7 trim, leaving 3/4 inch overhang.
• 8 roll out remaining pastry for top to a scant 1/4 inch thickness& transfer to a rimless baking sheet.
• 9 refrigerate pie shell& pastry top until firm, about an hour.
• 10 use for your favourite summer fruit pie.