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Tender Pie Crust

By Deborah SnyderPhotography by Charles Schiller

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Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 2 dough disks (enough for 2 nine-inch pie crusts) Servings

Ingredients

3

cups all purpose flour

2

tablespoons sugar

1

3/4 teaspoons salt

1

cup plus 2 tablespoons (2 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

8

tablespoons (or more) ice water

1

1/2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar

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Preparation

  1. Blend flour, sugar, and salt in processor. Add butter; using on/off turns, process until coarse meal forms. Add 8 tablespoons ice water and cider vinegar; blend until moist clumps form, adding more ice water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry. Gather dough together. Turn dough out onto work surface; divide dough in half. Form each half into ball and flatten into disk. Wrap disks separately in plastic; refrigerate at least 1 hour. DO AHEAD Can be made ahead. Keep dough refrigerated up to 2 days, or enclose in resealable plastic bag and freeze up to 1 month, then thaw in refrigerator overnight. Soften slightly at room temperature before rolling out.

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