EASY PIE CRUST RECIPE- DON’T BE SCARED OF SCRATCH CRUST!

Easy Pie Crust Recipe- Don’t Be Scared of Scratch Crust! I have always been better at cooking than baking. Something about the science of baking and the need to follow a recipe exactly made me weary.  Until I discovered the easiest homemade buttery pie crust recipe ever.  My aunt is one of those people who can bake without a recipe, she has everything memorized.  She shared this amazing pie crust recipe with me and said “don’t be scared!”.  So, I decided to just make it.

To my surprise the recipe calls for less ingredients than I thought it would AND as long as you treat the butter the right way,  you are golden!  (pun intended)

What you need:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 10 tablespoons butter ( 1 stick plus 2 tablespoons), cubed
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 5 tablespoons water
• Pastry cutter or fork- by hand
• OR Food processor

What to do:

1. First,  add the flour to a large bowl.
2. Cube the butter, the easiest way to do this and to ensure that the cubes are small enough,  is to cut each tablespoon (which is a perfect square) in half and half again.  You should get 4 cubes from each tablespoon.
3. ..............................

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