Hot Water Pastry - Pie Crust

I made this 1940's pie crust for the first time today, and it made one the best pie crusts I have made. Very flaky and tender. Please give it a try, this really works.

.

Hot Water Pastry - Pie Crust

.

Makes one, 9-inch double pie just

.

Ingredients:

.

3/4 cup (5 1/2 oz - 155 g) shortening (I used Butter Flavor Crisco), (cold from fridge or room temp OK)

1/2 teaspoon (2.5 g) distilled white vinegar

1 Tablespoon (15 g) milk, (cold from fridge or room temp OK)

1 teaspoon (6 g) salt or to taste

1 1/2 teaspoons (4 g) cornstarch

1/4 cup (2 fl oz - 58 g) boiling hot water (I heated it in the microwave)

2 cups (9 oz - 255g) all-purpose flour

.

Directions:

.

In a mixing bowl, add shortening, vinegar, milk, salt and cornstarch, don't mix yet.

.

Pour in the boiling hot water and whip with a dinner fork until mixture is smooth and creamy and combined, it will look similar to mayonnaise.

.

Add flour to shortening mixture and stir with a rubber spatula until dough just comes together. Don't over mix.

.

Divide dough in half and roll out dough between sheets of wax paper. If dough is difficult to work with, refrigerate before rolling.

.

(I find it easier to hand press the bottom dough into a pie plate that has been sprayed with non-stick spray, rather than rolling it out and adding to the pie plate. I do roll out the top dough between sheets of waxed paper.)





via Recipe Secrets Forum - Copycat Restaurant Recipes http://www.recipesecrets.net/forums/your-favorite-recipes/52414-hot-water-pastry-pie-crust.html

Aucun commentaire:

Enregistrer un commentaire