A few weeks ago, during one of my crazy baking days, I made up several pie crusts, using the recipe my maternal grandmother always used.
I am including both the original recipe and my “tweaked wheat” version. {Truthfully, the wheat is the yummiest. My husband and my Daddy agree… and my Daddy’s pretty picky when it comes to pie!}
{Oh, and for those of you who don’t know, I called my grandmother “Gigi,” so that’s why it’s called “Gigi’s Pie Crust.” Original, aren’t I?}
GiGi’s Pie Crust (Original)
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup COLD water
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 tsp salt
Directions
–>Sift flour with salt.
–>Cut in shortening until mixture is coarse and granular.
–>Work water in lightly.
–>Roll out onto floured surface.
What I do
–> Seriously, some of these “cooking terms” are just beyond me, so after I sift the flour and salt, I whip out my mixer (no, I don’t have an amazing Kitchen Aid… just a cheap hand mixer *sigh* but it works just fine).
–> I toss the shortening (healthy, huh?!) into the bowl and mix it up with the flour and salt until it looks right (coarse and granular???)… basically until it is mixed.
–> I add the cold water in a little at a time, as I mix (with the mixer again) it into the flour-salt-shortening combo.
–> After I can’t get any further with the mixer, I rinse my hands with cold water and go at the dough with my hands.
–> When I get it mixed up like I want it, I shape it into a smooshed ball and flatten it slightly.
–> I roll it out onto a floured surface, and either pop it in my pie plate or roll it up in freezer paper and stick it in the freezer for later use. {These freeze very well!}
Gigi’s Pie Crust (Wheat)
Ingredients
3/4 cup wheat flour
3/4 cup white flour
1/4 COLD water
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 tsp salt
Directions
–> Same as original recipe.
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What perfect timing to share this recipe! I have been switching my family to whole wheat bread, muffins, now I can make these for Thanksgiving!
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I like the combination of flours.
Geri
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Okay Amy. I’m blaming another thing on you. First getting back into the whole coupon insanity…not sure if I’m gonna stay there, but i blame you and facebook for luring me back in. Then I also said I would never be a pie maker. I don’t like to bake and I don’t really like pies so I refuse to make them (kinda selfish don’t you think!). Then this 40 day challenge thing I’m doing for myself rolled around and one of the ideas included making a PIE…shoot!!!! That couldn’t be from the Lord. But when i was pondering this crazy idea, I remembered a pic of a beautiful pie crust you had posted on facebook. . .so caved and made a pie crust. It was a practice crust because the ‘real’ pie that is a part of my challenge won’t be made for a couple of days…i’m gonna post a pic on my blog sometime soon. you’ll wanna see b/c it will make you laugh! have a yummy thanksgiving!
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