How To Make All Purpose Pie Crust Recipe

Steps

1. 1To begin making the Easy All purpose Pie Crust Recipe, first get all the ingredients ready and get your butter cut into small pea size pieces.
2. 2The next step is to make the dough for the pie crust.
3. 3In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, and sugar. Add the butter into the flour mixture.
4. 4Work the butter into the flour with your fingers until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. When you hold the flour together, it should hold tight and when you let it loose, it will fall apart.
5. 5Sprinkle ice water onto the flour and butter mixture. Using your hands push the dough from the sides to the middle of the bowl to form a ball that holds together.
6. 6Make sure to add little water at a time, as the heat from your hands will melt the butter and help form the dough as well.
7. 7You can transfer the pie dough on to a work surface and knead the dough until all the flour has come together to form a smooth dough.
8. 8Once done, wrap the dough in a cling film or a plastic wrap and refrigerate it for a couple of hours. This refrigeration process helps to give the pie crust a flaky texture.
9. 9Once refrigerated, we are now ready to roll the dough to form a crust.
10. 10On a generously floured surface, gently flatten the ball of the dough with a rolling pin. Starting from the center, roll the dough into a circle about an inch larger than the diameter of the pan that you plan to use.
11. 11Once rolled out lift the dough into the pan. Fold the edges under and crimp with your fingers or a fork.
12. 12You can also use mini tart cups to make the pie crust.
13. 13You can now the Pie Dough to make you favorite Apple Pie or any other savory tart.