Pat A Crust Pie Crust Recipes

Steps:

• Place the flour, sugar, and salt in the pie pan and mix with your fingers until blended.
• In a measuring cup, combine the oil and milk and beat with a fork until creamy.
• Pour all at once over flour mixture.
• Mix with a fork until the flour mixture is completely moistened.
• Pat the dough with your fingers, first up the sides of the plate, then across the bottom.
• Flute the edges.
• Shell is now ready to be filled.
• If you are preparing a shell to fill later, or your recipe requires a prebaked crust, preheat the oven to 425.
• Prick the pastry with a fork and bake 15 minute.

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, stir the flour, salt and oil until all flour is moistened. Sprinkle with cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all water is absorbed.
• Gather the pastry into a ball. Press in the bottom and up the side of a 9-inch glass pie plate; flute. Unbaked Pie Crust: Fill and bake as directed in the pie recipe. Baked Pie Crust: Heat the oven to 475°F. Prick the bottom and side of the pastry thoroughly with a fork. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown. Cool completely on a cooling rack, about 30 minutes. Fill as directed in the pie recipe.

Steps:

• Cut each stick of butter into 8 pieces, and refrigerate until needed. Place the flour, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl, and mix to combine.
• Add the chilled butter. Using a pastry blender, incorporate the butter into the flour mixture; the mixture should resemble coarse meal with small pieces of butter, the size of small peas, remaining visible.
• Drizzle 2 tablespoons ice water over the flour-butter mixture, and blend. Repeat with an additional 2 tablespoons water. At this point, you may have to add more water: When a handful of dough squeezed together just holds its shape, you've added enough; if the dough crumbles, continue incorporating water, 1 tablespoon at a time, checking the consistency after each additional tablespoon.
• Turn the dough out onto a clean work surface. Divide into two equal pieces, and place on two separate sheets of plastic wrap. Flatten, and form two disks. Wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• Lightly dust a clean, dry work surface with flour. Place the chilled dough in the center of the work surface, and dust the dough as well as the rolling pin with flour. Position the rolling pin on the center of the disk, and begin rolling the dough away from you. Give the disk a quarter turn, and roll again. Continue turning and rolling until you have an even 1/8-inch thickness. Turning the dough as you roll will prevent it from sticking to the work surface. A dry pastry brush is handy to remove any excess flour during and after the rolling process.
• Lightly butter the pie plate. To minimize stretching when moving the dough, roll it around the pin, lift up, and unroll over the buttered pie plate. Using your fingers, gently pat the dough into place. Trim any excess dough with a paring knife or kitchen shears, leaving a 1-inch overhang; then fold dough under to reinforce the edge.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine egg and milk; stir into flour mixture (dough will be sticky). Press onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. pie plate. , Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool on a wire rack. Fill as desired. , If baking the filling, cover edges with foil during the last 30 minutes to prevent overbrowning if necessary. ,

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place all ingredients in 9 inch pie pan. Stir together with fork. Pat mixture into bottom and up the sides of the pan. Poke holes in bottom and side of crust.
• Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until light brown. Use as directed in favorite pie recipe.

Steps:

• Sift flour, sugar and salt into bowl. Whip oil and milk together. Pour over flour mixture, and mix with a fork. Pat 2/3 of dough into a pie plate. Use filing of your choice. Crumble rest of dough on top (except on cream pies). (I like to add brown sugar, crushed walnuts and cinnamon to the mixture for my apple pie). Bake as for any pie.

Steps:

• In a stand mixer (or a large bowl with an electric hand beater), cream together cream cheese and butter on medium-high for 2 minutes until fully combined. Scrape down sides of bowl.
• Whisk together flour, sugar and salt. Add to mixer bowl and stir on medium-low until until it resembles corn meal, then on medium-high until it all sticks together. Remove 3 tbsp of dough and reserve.
• Flour workbench lightly. Turn dough out onto floured board. Knead lightly until well-combined. Pat out into a 6" circle, and transfer to a greased 9" pie plate. Using heel of hand, press dough out to sides of pan. Using fingertips, push dough smooth and even, working it up the sides of the pan.
• Roll out reserved dough into a rope about 12" long (use a ruler!). Cut into three 4" lengths, then roll each piece out to 8" long. Lay the 3 ropes along the upper edge of the pie pan, pressing lightly into the dough already in the pan. Flute the edge as you would a rolled crust. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour. (Dough can be held up to 2 days in the refrigerator, or 1 month in the freezer if double wrapped.).
• Prick the bottom of the dough all over with a fork (try not to go all the way through to the pan, or the filling might leak). Bake in preheated 325°F oven for about 35 minutes until golden brown.

Steps:

• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Stir together wet ingredients.
• Combine, stirring just to blend.
• Press and pat into a 9 inch pan, up the sides, crimping the edges.
• Bake as directed in recipe.
• (For quiche, I prebake my crusts for 15 minutes @400.).

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven.
• Preheat to 400 deg F.
• Whisk flour and salt together in a bowl or process the mixture for 10 seconds in a food processor.
• Add butter; mash with back of fork or process until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Drizzle 2-3 tbsp cream over the top and stir or process till crumbs look damp and hold together when pinched.
• Transfer mixture to prepared 9-inch pie pan or 9.
• 5 or 10-inch two-piece tart pan.
• Pat evenly along bottom and sides with fingertips.
• If making a pie, form crust edge and crimp or flute with fingers.
• Prick bottom/sides with fork.
• Bake till crust is golden brown, 18-22 minutes, prcking bottom once or twice if it bubbles.
• If filling crust with uncooked mixture that requires further cooking, whisk together egg yolk and salt, then brush inside of crust with mixture.
• Return to oven until egg glaze sets, 1-2 minutes.