Easy Pie Crust Recipe

Easy Pie Crust

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Pie Crust Recipe

   Ingredients required
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup lard
1/2 cup shortening
2/3 cup cold water

Instructions for Pie Crust Recipe

   Put first four ingredients in a bowl. Mix with a fork or pasty blender until crumbly. Then add the other one half cup of shortening. Pour a little water around at a time and mix with a fork until water is all used up. Then roll out. Makes 10 double crust or pastry for two 8 inch pies.

Failure Proof Pie Crust

   Ingredients required
2 cup sifted flour
1 cup shortening
4 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons for vinegar

Instructions for Failure Proof Pie Crust

   Cut together flour and shortening. Add milk, salt and vinegar and mix lightly with a fork. Form in a ball. Makes one 8 or 9 inch pie crust.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.

Easy Pie Crust Recipe