Missing Pie Crust Recipe

[Ms V]

Come on Joe, I'll trade you my Oatmeal recipe for your pie crust recipe. Ooops, too late, nothing left to barter with. I have looked on the Chambers Recipe board and can't find it...v

[bbbuddy]

While waiting for Joe's recipe to show up, I will take the chance to post my pie crust recipe. It is the very best pie crust I have ever had. Since I got the recipe a few years back, I make no other pie crust. Trust me. I want to see Joe's recipe out of sheer curiosity, I will still make this one.

In 2 separate bowls:

Bowl #1
Mix 1 cup lard (or shortening)
1 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups flour

Bowl#2
Whisk 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup cold water

Mix the contents of the 2 bowls together. It will be a wet dough. Let it set for a half hour to allow the flour to absorb more of the moisture.

Divide in half and roll out on a well floured board.

You won't believe how flaky this crust is! I never made pies much, the crust just seemed too hard to do. This one is EASY, rolls out easy, makes plenty for two crusts. Make it with lard if you can, not shortening. Lard is healthier for you. Just as scientists have recently found that butter is better than margarine...

Tip: Sprinkle with flour as you roll. I find it's easier to get a round crust by turning the crust over several times as I roll. Each time, I reapply flour to the board and crust.

[Todd W. White]

Did Joe send this to me to post? I've looked for it, but don't have it...

[ha_asfan]

Yesterday's NY Times had theultimate pie crust recipe and it too, used lard, leaf lard. I haven't tried this recipe yet and am not too sure about the lard part. There is a version for all butter whichis most likely what I will try first. The recipe which calls for the two bowl process is intriguing, that one I want totry right away.

[bbbuddy]

If you insist on using butter or other shortening, at least get a small container of lard (regular) and make a test crust from it. Try it, you'll LIKE it!
People ask me to make them a pie, and they don't even CARE what the filling is, they all want that crust!

[ha_asfan]

Lard is not kosher...I don't observe all rules of kosher but, lard is going to be something entirely new for me. How do you buy lard? Box, can, jar, from the butcher???

[bbbuddy]

ah, I don't mean to push you off your Kosher diet. Keeping Kosher is important if you do that.

Lard can be bought in small plastic tubs, 1 pound.

Maybe I should try the pie crust with butter, then I could tell YOU the difference, haha.

[berlyn]

Ms. V,

Try to PM Joe and ask/beg for his pie crust recipe. Promise to recite a little poetry while making and eating it and he just might pass it along.
just a thought......

[chipperhiker]

Around here, lard comes in 1 lb. blocks that you can find in the oil/shortening section. The blocks are wrapped and boxed in packaging similar to 1 lb. boxes of butter.

-Jenn

[spin321]

I'm with you HA,
I never tasted ham or bacon until I was almost thirty. Now every once in a while I get a hankering for a BLT or a ham and swiss on rye, but Lard is a foreign substance to me. Since my mother will be here for Thanksgiving, I'll need to use shortening in my crusts. I don't think she would appreciate a trayfe Thanksgiving! If you try it, let me know how it works out!