Kitchenaid Pie Pastry
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
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2 crusts
- Serves:
- 2
ingredients
directions
- Sift flour and salt into bowl.
- Cut shortening and butter into 4 to 5 pieces and drop into bowl.
- Attach bowl and flat beater.
- Turn to Stir Speed and cut shortening into flour until particles are size of small peas, about 30 seconds.
- Add water, a tablespoon at a time, until all particles are moistened.
- Use only enough water to make pastry form a ball.
- Watch dough closely as over mixing will result in a tough crust.
- Chill in refrigerator 15 minutes.
- Roll to 1/8-inch thickness between pieces of waxed paper.
- Fold pastry into quarters; ease into pie plate and unfold, pressing firmly against bottom and side.
- Trim and crimp edges.
- Fill and bake as desired.
- For Baked Pastry Shell: Prick sides and bottom with fork.
- Bake at 450F for 8 to 10 minutes until light brown.
- Cool completely before filling.
- HINT: I also chill the wax paper and rolling pin.
Questions & Replies
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The easiest pastry recipe I ever made was in my Kitchen Aid mixer. It called for flour, butter, salt, ice water, and SHORTENING! Mix the butter & shortening. Chuck in the flour & salt, & mix just a little. Scoop out the mess in the mixing bowl, and chill or freeze it. the It looked like a gloopy mess when it was mixed, which couldn't possibly turn into roll-able pastry. It was magnificent: you could roll it out over and over again. It kept, frozen, beautifully. When cooked, it turned out flaky, tender, tasty. It was the only no-fail pastry recipe I ever met that lived up to its name. I was always a bit ashamed of compliments about it, because I knew what a fraud I was. My mum made pastry with a gifted touch, working the shortening into the flower with a pastry-maker's touch (cool fingers, gentle, delicate rubbing of flour & shortening together to form a crumbly mass - a true art!) So, finally! Here's my problem: Hydrogenating shortening has been banned. This has changed the texture of shortening so that it can't work with the Kitchen Aid pastry any longer. Making a pie using the "healthier" Crisco produces a puddle of pastry. So, HELP!!! Does anybody know of a fat that can be used that is still hydrogenated, or that will work, even if it's not hydrogenated?
Reviews
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Julesong
Tukwila, 87
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