Pie Crust Recipe

 

AuthorSteve Nubie
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Pie crusts are an intimidating recipe ingredient for many people. Maybe that’s why so many folks buy ready-made pie crusts at the grocery store. Unfortunately, they’re a bit expensive. For a lot less money you can make your own pie crusts in your bread machine and then use them to create confections from fruit pie to pot pies and pasty’s.

The key to a pie crust is butter that’s been partially frozen in the freezer and ice water. You’ll also need to dice the partially frozen butter into small cubes to help it integrate into the dough. From a conceptual standpoint, you’re trying to mix the still solid butter into the dough, while the ice water is helping to offset the friction of the kneading paddle to keep the butter from melting.

INGREDIENTS:
 1/2 cup very cold water (allow the ice to sit in the water and then measure out the 1/2 cup)
 3/4 cup butter (1 1/2 sticks that you should freeze for 15 to 20 minutes)
 1/2 teaspoon salt
 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS:
1

Add the ingredients in the order indicated and select pasta dough course. When the dough is done, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes before rolling.

2

Once you have your pie dough on hand you’re ready to explore all of the ways you can create meals and desserts with pie dough as a foundation. This strawberry pie recipe is simple and delicious.

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:
 1/2 cup very cold water (allow the ice to sit in the water and then measure out the 1/2 cup)
 3/4 cup butter (1 1/2 sticks that you should freeze for 15 to 20 minutes)
 1/2 teaspoon salt
 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

DIRECTIONS:
1

Add the ingredients in the order indicated and select pasta dough course. When the dough is done, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes before rolling.

2

Once you have your pie dough on hand you’re ready to explore all of the ways you can create meals and desserts with pie dough as a foundation. This strawberry pie recipe is simple and delicious.

Pie Crust Recipe

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3 Comments
  1. Reply
    Judy October 5, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    Arthritis made homemade pie crust a thing of the past. This recipe in my bread machine has given me the gift of homemade crust again!
    Used dough setting, opened once to scrape sides with a spatula, let mix a few more minutes…..and, amazing, dough was perfect. Froze for 20 minutes then rolled out with just a little flour. I’m so happy I tried this!!!!
    Thank you

  2. Reply
    Julia February 1, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    I don’t have pasta dough course on my bread machine. Would bread dough or bagel dough work?

    • Reply
      Admin February 5, 2018 at 8:40 am

      Hi Julia,

      The simple answer is no but there is a solution. You can use the basic dough setting, but once the kneading paddle stops remove the dough from the bread pan. Following the kneading cycles on many bread machines there is a rising cycle. This rising cycle subjects the dough to heat to encourage the yeast in the dough multiply to create the rise, but pasta dough does not have yeast. It’s typically a combination of water, eggs and flour but no yeast. If the pasta dough is subject to the heat of the rising cycle it will come out dry and crumbly. You want an elastic dough that can be rolled out on a floured counter-top or in a pasta machine.

      Hope this helps!

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