Pastry Crusts
A pastry or crumb crust sets the foundation for its filling. Butter dough, chocolate crumb crust, and rough puff preparations offer different textures for pies and other baked dishes.
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Puff Pastry
Puff pastry builds a layered structure that can carry sweet or savory ingredients. Rough puff and other dough preparations sit alongside cheese twists in this collection of pastry recipes.
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Pie Shell for Pecan Pie
1¼ cups all-purpose flour plus extra for dough and surface 2 tablespoons powdered sugar ½ teaspoon sea salt 8 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter; cut into ¼-inch pats 2…
Pate Sucree Shell
2½ cups all-purpose flour 1 pinch salt (optional) 3 tablespoons sugar ½ pound (2 sticks) cold, unsalted butter; cut into pieces 4 tablespoons ice water 2 large egg…
Making Successful Pie Pastry
An experienced cook tosses together a batch of pastry quickly and easily and invariably turns out well-shaped pies with tender, crisp and somewhat flaky crusts. Some of the…
Almond Crust
1½ cups blanched almonds 1 egg white ¼ cup sugar Preheat oven to 375ºF. Using a knife, chop the almonds fine. Or chop them briefly in a food…
Basic Pie Pastry
2 cups flour ½ teaspoon salt ⅔ cups shortening ⅓ cup cold water, approximately If using a food processor, put the flour, salt and shortening into the container.…
Brazil Nut Crust
Brazil nuts 2 tablespoons sugar Using a food processor, chop enough Brazil nuts to make 1 cup. Blend the ground nuts with the sugar. Using the back of…
Butter Pecan Crust
½ cup unsalted butter 1 cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup granulated sugar ½ cup pecan pieces Preheat oven to 375ºF. Blend together butter, flour and granulated sugar until…
Chocolate Crumb Pie Shell
1½ cups chocolate cookie crumbs ¼ cup unsalted butter; softened 1 tablespoon granulated sugar Preheat oven to 375ºF. In a large mixing bowl mix ingredients until thoroughly blended.…
Chocolate Pecan Crust
1 8½-ounce package chocolate wafers ¾ cups pecan pieces; finely chopped ½ cup unsalted butter, melted Preheat oven to 350ºF. Crumble cookies to make about 2 cups crumbs.…
Crisco Double Crust Pastry
2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt ¾ cup Crisco ½ cup water In a medium bowl stir together flour and salt. Using a pastry blender cut Crisco until…
