Basic Pie Dough Recipe
2 cups Domata Living Flour
¼ teaspoon salt
2/3 cup butter flavored vegetable shortening
¼ cup ice water
Measure
salt and Domata Living Flour into
a mixing bowl, mix on low speed.
- Cut in
shortening thoroughly with pastry cutter; do not use your hands.
- Sprinkle
in ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time.
- Continue
mixing until all flour is moistened and dough cleans sides of bowl,
1 or 2 additional tablespoons of ice water can be added, if necessary, but
only enough to pull the dough together. If needed add flour, one
tablespoon at a time.
- Rollout
final dough on lightly floured wax paper, place dough on wax paper in
freezer for twenty (20) minutes before placing in pie pan.
- For a baked
shell, prick bottom and sides with fork, bake at 425 degree Fahrenheit for
10 minutes or until lightly browned.
- When pie
needs top dough repeat recipe above. Crimp edges of two crusts together to
seal. With sharp knife, make several crosshatch slits in the top crust.
- Brush
with egg wash and bake according to pie filling recipe.
