Basic pie crust dough - bon appetit

1 doublecrus

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups All purpose flour
½ tablespoon Salt
10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
¼ cup Ice water
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 large Egg yolk

Directions

Sift flour and salt into large bowl. Add butter and rub with fingertips until mixture is size of large peas. Stir wa. ter, sugar and yolk in small cup until sugar dissolves. Add to flour mixture and toss with fingertips until dough begins to come together. Gather dough into ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 1 hour.

(Pie crust dough can be prepared 1 day ahead.) Bon Appetit/August/89 Scanned & fixed by Di and Gary

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