Grandmas Pie Crust Recipes

RUTH'S GRANDMA'S PIE CRUST

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine all-purpose flour, shortening, sugar, and salt. Blend together with a pastry cutter until crumbly.
• In a small bowl, mix egg with water. Blend into flour mixture. Chill in refrigerator until ready to use.

GRANDMA PLATT'S ALWAYS PERFECT PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Mix milk and vinegar together in a small bowl. Let sit until milk curdles, about 5 minutes.
• Combine flour, shortening, and salt in a large bowl; mix with a pastry blender or your hands until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in milk mixture until dough comes together.
• Roll dough on a floured work surface using a floured rolling pin.

GRANDMA'S PERFECT PIE CRUST

Steps:

• In a medium bowl stir together flour and salt. With a pastry blender cut in shortening till pea-sized.
• Sprinkle water on one tablespoon at a time tossing with a fork. Push moistened dough to the side. Mix till all flour is moistened. Don't mix too much or the crust will be hard.
• Form into a ball and roll out on the floured surface. Turn and flour the dough a few times till it's the size you need.

GRANDMA'S VERY EASY PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Sift flour and salt into a bowl. Pour vegetable oil into a 1-cup measure and fill the measure with milk up to the 7-ounce mark. Whisk oil and milk together and pour immediately into the bowl with flour. Mix the crust together with a fork just until it holds together. Do not knead.
• Divide crust in half, form into balls, and roll each half out between sheets of waxed paper. Peel waxed paper from crusts to fit into pie plate.

GRANDMA'S SECRET PIE CRUST

Steps:

• In large bowl mix flour and salt. Cut in shortening with two butter knifes.
• In separate bowl, mix together egg, vinegar, and water. Drizzle wet mixture into dry mixture, cutting it in.
• Roll out dough, and fit into two 9 inch pie pans.
• Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 12 minutes.

GRANDMA'S BEST PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Blend flour, sugar, and salt in processor just until processed.
• Pulse the butter and lard in, blend until mixture resembles coarse crumbles.
• Add 5 tablespoons ice water and pulse a few times until dough begins to clump together. Do not overwork. When it starts to come away from the edges, dump the dough on to a floured surface.
• Add another tablespoon of ice water and, using your hands, mix the water into the dough just until it forms a ball. Add additional water until you get the ball shape needed.
• Divide dough in half and form each half into a disc. Wrap the disc in plastic wrap and put it into the fridge for at least an hour.
• If necessary, soften slightly at room temperature before rolling out.
• I bake this at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes. But keep an eye on it, every oven is a bit different.

GRANDMOTHER'S SUPER FLAKY PIE CRUST

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350 F degrees (Fahreinheit).
• pour flour into medium bowl, add margarine using pastry blender (or crisscrossing with knives) until lumps are slightly smaller than pea-size.
• 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.
• transfer half of dough to a sheet of wax paper lightly sprinkled with flour. sprinkle a little flour onto top of pie dough.
• cover pie dough with another sheet of wax paper.
• 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).
• 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.
• Then,carefully peel the wax paper from pie dough, and ease into pan.
• repeat steps 4-8 with other half of dough.
• Bake for 15 min, or so or until golden brown in color.
• Fill with any pie filling!

GRANDMA'S RHUBARB CUSTARD PIE

Steps:

• Method Filling: In a bowl combine egg, sugar and flour whisk together. Then add diced rhubarb and fold together, after make a homemade pastry, see TWO recipe below. Pre-heat oven to 350ºF and after pie crust is made pinch sides together, place pastry in pan and bake for 10 minutes when ready pour all rhubarb filling on top then add strips of pastry " Grandma always use strips" set timer to 30 to 45 minutes depending on your oven. Pan crust may shrink a little but after you add the strips it will fill in the crust. " Use cookies sheet with foil under pan for dripping" When baked remove from oven and let cool before cutting pie, serve with thick cream or ice cream. Viewers Moms Pastry Crust Method: Mix together flour, baking soda, brown sugar and salt, then cut lard in cubes and add to dry ingredients. Blend all ingredients together with hand, mixer or pastry cutter, until all combined. In a one cup measuring cup add egg and vinegar and mix together and top with water to make one cup. Add liquid to flour mixture and continue blending together with hand, mixer until it forms a ball. " Add more flour or water if needed" Cover in clear wrap and put in fridge to cool lard, chill overnight of for a few hours. When ready remove from fridge bring to room temperature and cut in four equal pieces, makes four pie crust. Roll out on counter top with a dusting of flour, place one pastry in oiled pie pan and roll the others. Cut one in strips for the top of pie, the other two place on a sheet of parchment paper and a piece of clear wrap, roll pastry in parchment paper and wrap in clear wrap to freeze for later use. " Viewers Mom made this pastry for over 60 to 70 years" Bonita's Kitchen Pastry Crust 2 Cup all-purpose flour, extra for rolling 1/2 Cup Cold Butter 1/2 Tsp salt 1/4 to 1/2 Cup cold water 1 Parchment paper Mix flour, butter ( chop in pieces) and salt together in bowl mix with your hand or food processor when mixed add water mix until it shapes into a ball then remove from bowl/mixer. Put a piece of parchment paper on the counter and sprinkle with flour then cut the ball into two pieces then put your pastry ball on top of it then roll until all even.