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PLAIN PASTRY (3) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2¼ c flour
⅜ c cold water
¾ c shortening
¾ c sugar



 
Directions:
Directions:
This recipe makes 3 lower crusts or 2 lower crusts and 1 top crust. Sift flour, measure, and sift with sugar. Cut in shortening with fork, two spatulas, or pastry cutter. Continue process until mixture is coarse and granular. Work water in gradually until little balls of dough just hang together in one larger ball. Turn ⅓ pastry onto lightly-floured board. Roll to ⅛" thick square. Shape to cover bottom of pie pan. Roll out remaining two ⅓ pastry sections to use as top crust for pie and second lower crust or two additional lower crusts.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Directions for this recipe were supplemented by Household Searchlight Recipe Book. Topeka, Kansas: The Household Magazine, 1940.

 

 

 

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