{"id":3525,"slug":"traditional-pie-crust","title":"Traditional Pie Crust","description":"This is the traditional pie crust. To ensure a flakey crust (considered desirable), you need to use lard and you need to keep the lard from melting. It's best to use a cold stone rolling pin and surface, and to generally keep everything in the refrigerator until used.","ingredients_raw":["450 g flour","Salt","110 g lard, cut into pieces","Water or milk"],"ingredients_norm":["flour","salt","lard","water or milk"],"steps":["Combine the flour and salt.","Add the lard, and cut it into the dry mixture.","Gently mix in just enough water to make a stiff dough.","Roll out the dough in a cool place, and use in your recipe."],"categories":["Dough recipes","Recipes for dough","Baking recipes","Recipes using wheat flour","Recipes using lard","Recipes using cow milk"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Traditional_Pie_Crust","source_ref":"4524039","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Traditional_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":"9470985acf84a4c47866e6c671b7bb034c789ae4d71bc9ed694ba5594d45cab4","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:28Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:28Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/traditional-pie-crust"}