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Default Pie Crust - Make Your Own, Or Buy It?

On 15/06/2012 8:25 PM, sf wrote:

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> My problem was that I added too much water. It didn't look like it
> was coming together, so I'd add more water. It was tough and awful.
> As soon as I found the FP recipe, my pie crust mojo changed for the
> better and I'd rather make my own now. I use the +1T extra water
> option and it's right every time.


You could probably have got away with it by using extra bench flour when
rolling it out.

> Nope. I keep my paws off it except the amount of handling it needs to
> make it a nice disk with even edges.


Egg Zachary.
Start off with a reasonably round disc, a little bench flour on the
surface and on the pin and roll out from the centre, rolling out the
shortest edges to try to keep an even diameter and the result should be
reasonably round.
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