Auntie Irene's Foolproof Pie Crust (small Batch)

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/2 cups butter flavor crisco, chilled or 1 1/2 cups other shortening
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• water
• 1 egg

Recipe

• 1 cut first four ingredients together until crumbly; set aside.
• 2 put vinegar in 2 cup liquid measuring cup.
• 3 fill to 1/2 cup mark with cold water.
• 4 add egg and beat with fork.
• 5 drizzle over dry ingredients; stir with fork.
• 6 turn onto lightly floured board and knead approximately 5 times, until no longer "sticky".
• 7 divide by 1/2-3/4 cup measure.
• 8 roll out on a lightly floured surface, using as little flour as possible and handling as little as possible.
• 9 bake empty shells at 400°f for 10-12 minutes on the bottom rack of the oven.
• 10 cooking pies on the bottom rack of the oven will help prevent over browning of the top and soggy crusts on the bottom.
• 11 this dough freezes extremely well; simply flatten divided dough into a disk and put into a ziploc bag, removing all air; thaw in fridge and roll out as directed.