Sally's easy piecrust - country cooking
1 double pie
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Unsifted all-purpose flour |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| 1 | cup | Vegetable shortening |
| 5 | To 6 T cold water | |
Directions
1. In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
2. Sprinkle cold water over flour mixture, 1 T at a time, and mix lightly with fork until pastry holds together when lightly pressed, Shape the pastry into 2 equal balls; flatten each to a 1-inch thickness. Wrap and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
Country Cooking/Summer/94 Scanned & fixed by Di and Gary