Crisco's Pastry Method

"Mom labeled this one as "Noelle's Favorite." It's an almost no-fail recipe that's quick and easy to boot......But although it made the family cookbook in 1980, even I've replaced it with Pillsbury's pre-made crusts in the refrigerated section."
 
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Ready In:
7mins
Ingredients:
4
Yields:
2 crusts
Serves:
12
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ingredients

  • 34 cup Crisco
  • 2 14 cups sifted flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 14 cup water
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directions

  • Sift flour and salt into bowl. Take out 1/3 cup flour. Cut Crisco (with knives, fork or blender) into remaining flour until the pieces are the size of small peas.
  • Mix 1/4 cup water with 1/3 cup flour (taken out from above) to form paste. Add flour paste to Crisco/flour mixture. Mix and shape dough into a ball. Divide the dough into two parts.
  • Place one portion on a pastry canvas or board which has been dusted with 1 tablespoon flour. Roll the dough to 12 inches in diameter, rolling with short, light strokes, from the center to the edges.
  • Place in pie plate, trim the edges with a knife,even with the edges of the pie plate.
  • Roll the other half of dough. Cut or prick small steam vents. Place on the filled pie, and trim the edges 1/2 inch beyond the edge of the pie plate. Seal edges. (I use left hand index finger and right hand, thumb and index fingers, interlocking with each other.) Bake in oven at the temperature recommended for the pie filling.

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Thirty some years ago, mom published the first Hawman Family Cookbook to give each of her three daughters a way to carry our favorite recipes from childhood off into the next phase of our lives. I still have the original pages, straight from the typewriter, with traces of whited-out type showing through the corrected lines, and with drips and grease stains highlighting my favorite recipes. With my own daughter now ready to head out on her own, it's time for an updated version complete with her favorites as well. I'm starting this project in January 2010, with a goal of completing the "new expanded edition" in time for Christmas presents in December. I'll be using Recipezaar to collect the recipes, but my hope is to publish my final book complete with the stories and pictures evoked by this memory book of family food. For that, I'm looking forward to countless conversations with my 81-year-old mother, sisters, and children as well as others in my extended family. Let the fun begin! Noelle
 
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