majorcatfish
Garden Master
you are so right...Oh.. Some leftovers are best.
you are so right...Oh.. Some leftovers are best.
DW uses my mother's recipe:
2 cups flower
½ tsp. salt
2 or 3 tsp sugar
¼ tsp baking powder
¾ cup Crisco or margarine
Mix well with your hands, then add cold, cold water with fork. (DW leaves water in fridge for awhile with ice cubes in the bowl.) Form with your hands & put on a pastry board & roll out to fill pie tin.
I don't think Mom got this from a cookbook. I'd think an editor would question the clarity of a fork used to add water.
Mom never used ice cubes. I can remember a time when to do so would have meant chipping them off the block in the "ice box." She also had no experience with the new Crisco but DW uses it and, if anything, has a better crust than Mom's.
Steve