Pie Dough

Martha Stewart Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 Cups of Flour
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Sugar
• 1 Cup of Frozen, Unsalted Butter
• 1/4 - 1 Cup of Ice Water - just enough to bring the dough together.

Directions

1. Combine flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor and pulse to combine.
2. Add butter chunks and process until it resembles coarse meal - 15 seconds or more.
3. With the machine running, add enough ice water until the dough holds together
4. Divide and chill for 1 hour.

ATK All Butter Crust

Ingredients

• 3 Tbs Sour Cream
• 1/3 cup ice water
• 2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 Tbs sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 sticks of unsalted butter cut into 1/4 inch pieces, and frozen for 15 minutes.

Directions

1. Mix water and sour cream in a small bowl.
2. Combine flour, sugar and salt in the bowl of a food processor and whiz for 5 seconds to mix.
3. Add butter to food processor and pulse until pea sized pieces of flour remain.
4. Add half of the liquid and pulse 3 times.
5. Scrape the sides. add the rest of the liquid and pulse 3 more times.
6. Take clump of pie dough and squeeze it together - if does not form cohesive clump add some more liquid.
7. Pour onto plastic wrap and shape into a disk, cut in half and form 2 4 inch disks. Wrap in plastic and chill in fridge for 1 hour.
8. TIP: Use tapered end of pin and spin dough to maintain circle shape.