Pie Crust - Family Recipe

Ingredients

 

1 cup unsalted butter, chilled

3 cups all purpose flour

3 tablespoons white sugar

1/3 cup ice water

Instructions

 

Combine flour and sugar.  Cut butter into tablespoon pieces; add it to flour and sugar mixture.  Combine butter & flour together by hand using a pastry blender.

Stir the mixture with a fork, pour in the cold water.  When the dough starts to clump, and before it turns into a ball, stop stirring.

Lightly kneed dough in the bowl until it forms a ball.  Divide dough in two parts.  Flatten each part into a disk, wrap with Saran Wrap and chill for about 30 minutes before rolling.

Dough freezes well.  Or, leftovers can be used to make cinnamon sugar pie crust pastries.  (See next page)