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Pie Crust Help
I've also noticed rainy weather makes pie crust too dry. I do agree though, it does sound like it needs a little more liquid.
Pennsylvania Dutch Pastry
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening (for dumplings, 1 1/4 cup for
pie pastry)
5 tablespoons cold water
1 egg
1 teaspoon vinegar
Sift flour and salt. Cut in shortening until the mixture resembles coarse corm meal. Beat water, eggs and vinegar together. Then stir into flour mixture. Sape into a ball till ready to use.
This is my fav. recipe, and the only time I've had trouble with it was in rainy wether. [which in Texas has been all the time this year.]
Favorite Out-of-print cookbooks
The Wise Encylopedia of Cookery, pub. 194? [can't recall off hand]. I recived it as payment for helping a lady wih her grage sell among many other old cookbooks. Its a grat reference book.
