How to make apple pie crust ?
Jun 05, 2009 by Enumaerash | Posted in Cooking & Recipes
I cast-off butter,flour,salt and made it sonorous then added some
cold water I kept in the freezer for an hour.
Then I kept the wrapped pie crust dough in the fridge for 6 hours.
I had to take it out after 2 hours but I forgot.
When I took it out, it was very indurate but I pressed it hard to make
the pie crust on the pie pan.
But it got all discomforting just like when I didn't add the bitter water.
Was I suppose to take it out faster or did I had to kept it in the
freezer ?
It sounds to me like you played with your dough too much after you took it out of the fridge. You should have had a disk, then you start rolling that on a floured directorship. You want to be fairly quick so that your dough doesn't get warm and delicate. The flour helps too, to flour the council and the rolling pin will help keep it from sticking. Don't be rueful to use waxed paper while you are learning, barely put your disk (sized) in two sheets of waxed instrument and roll it out. That is how alot of us started! Gentle luck! <3
Favorite Pie Crust Prescription
The method you use to put pie pastry together will, to some degree, arbitrate the type of crust you end up with.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups (6 1/2 ounces) Gentle Pastry Blend or King Arthur Unbleached All-Objective Flour
1 tablespoon (1/8 ounce) buttermilk vigour (optional)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking force
1/4 cup (1/2 stick, 2 ounces) butter
1/4 cup (1 1/2 ounces) lard or vegetable shortening
1 teaspoon spotless or cider vinegar
3 to 5 tablespoons (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 ounces) lukewarm water
Preparation:
For a flaky, infirm crust (as opposed to one that’s harder, mealy, and more cookie-like), the following works well.
Whip together all of the dry ingredients, reserving a few tablespoons of the flour. Cut in half of the fat, working the assortment until it’s mealy and crumbly.
Place the withdrawn flour on your work surface, and overcoat the remaining fat with the flour. Use a rolling pin or the remnant of your hand to flatten the fat till it’s about 1/2-inch thick. Overcome this flour-coated fat into 1-inch pieces, and mix it into the dough, precisely till it’s evenly distributed; some of the pieces of flour-coated fat should depart into smaller pieces.
Sprinkle the brilliant(s) over the dough while tossing with a fork. Just as one day as the dough becomes cohesive (i.e., you can squeeze it into a ball definitely), stop mixing; there should still be visible pieces of fat in the dough. Press the dough into a disk and wrap it in plastic wrap or waxed post. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer; this resting patch allows the flour to absorb the unreservedly urinate, making the dough easier to roll out.
Flour your calling surface and roll the dough into a 12 x 9-inch (generally) rectangle. If it isn’t holding together well, sprinkle it lightly with a span of teaspoons of water. Fold the dough into thirds (like a learning), then fold it into thirds the opposite way, to state a rough square. Wrap it well and freeze again.
When you’re "ready to roll," move the dough from the fridge. If the dough is made with all lard and/or vegetable shortening, you’ll be capable to work with it directly from the refrigerator. A dough made with all butter will call to warm slightly (10 to 15 minutes) before rolling, as butter becomes breakable when it’s refrigerated. Dough made with a combination of butter and shortening should repose for about 5 minutes at room temperature before rolling. Trundle the dough to the size needed (about 13 inches for a 9-inch pie). Fill and bake as directed in your approach.
Note: in this particular recipe, cut all of the lard or vegetable shortening into the flour, then coat the butter with flour before adding it to the dough.
American Pie Dough
Makes eight 8-inch or seven 9-inch pie crusts. Of circuit if you half the recipe, expect four 8-inch crusts.
Ingredients:
8 cups all contemplate flour
1 tablespoon salt
1 and 3/4 together with 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cool and cut up in slices
3/4 cup shortening, OR I use another 3/4 cup butter intsead, cheerless
1 to 1 and a half cups very cold unreservedly urinate, or ice water
Preparation:
Place flour and vitality in a mixing bowl, stiring in the stockpile. Add the butter and incorporate into the flour my kneading and sifting it with fingers. You paucity there to be butter *flakes* about a half area of a dime thru out the flour. This process can take a bit of all at once however you want the mixture to be shaggy, not over kneaded.
Add the numbing water sifting it thru the flour miscellany, again with your fingers, dampening thru out.
Only experience at this issue will tell you by feel if you should drizzle in a bit more be unbelievable, be careful however. A damper dough is easier to trade with once rolling out, but a drier dough of this kind will upshot in a flakier crust once cooked.
Body the dough into equally softball sized portions, and stick each on plastic wrap. Smash down each ball and enclose with the wrap, forming each portion into a fat, outright, smooth pancake shape, also smoothing the edges thru the wrap.
Let the dough support for 2 hours or overnight refridgerated (very leading).
If not using immediately, dough will keep 3 days in refrigerator or several months frozen.
This dough in fact improves if frozen. Example also would be to float it out after the 2 hours of refridgerated *resting*, and once lined into a pie pan, wrap and ice up right before you use it.
MissMary | Jun 05, 2009