Pie (Pastry) Dough Recipe
Makes sufficient dough for one 9” pie (no top).
Cut
- 10 tbsp cold butter
into 1/8” cubes and put them in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Prepare some ice water. In a food processor, combine
- 200g all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
then add the butter chunks and sprinkle in
- ¼ cup ice-cold water
Pulse several times for ~15 seconds until it resembles a coarse meal. Add up to 4 tbsp more cold water if that doesn’t happen. (I like to look for when, after stopping a pulse, the coarse meal sticks together into just a few ½”-sized loose chunks and falls off the side into the middle.)
Pour the mixture onto a cutting board/counter and quickly compress it into a ball with your hands. Wrap it in plastic, then flatten it into an even disk.
Refrigerate at least 2 hours.