{"id":1603,"slug":"homemade-pie-crust","title":"Homemade Pie Crust","description":"Unlike with bread, pie crust and other pastries should be made in a way that minimizes the development of gluten. Once the water has been added, the dough should be worked as little as possible, to minimize toughness in the finished crust.","ingredients_raw":["225 grams (1 cup) all-purpose flour","2.5 ml (½ teaspoon) salt","230 ml (1 cup) cold vegetable shortening","30 ml (2 tablespoons) cold water (add 15 ml of water as needed)"],"ingredients_norm":["all purpose flour","salt","cold vegetable shortening","cold water"],"steps":["Combine flour and salt in medium bowl.","Cut in vegetable shortening with a pastry blender or two knives, until mixture is crumbly.","Sprinkle with cold water; mix just until mixture holds together.","Shape dough into a ball; place on lightly floured surface.","Roll out dough to 3 mm (⅛ inch) thickness.","Line pie plate with pastry.","Trim around perimeter for 2 cm (1 inch) overhang to fold under and crimp as desired (see pie crust edges below)."],"categories":["Pastry recipes","Vegan recipes","Baking recipes","Recipes for dough","Recipes using all-purpose flour"],"prep_time_minutes":30,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":30,"servings":null,"yield_text":"⌀ 20 cm; 95 cl volume shell","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Homemade_Pie_Crust","source_ref":"4642077","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Homemade_Pie_Crust&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"396b8370a352a2f91c0f083488ae30af01af05bbd4eb85a239503642f9672bbe","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/homemade-pie-crust"}