Graham cracker-coated pie shell

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1¼ cup Flour
½ teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Sugar
6 tablespoons Butter; chilled, cut in 1/4\" pieces
4 tablespoons All vegetable shortening; chilled
Ice water
½ cup Graham cracker crumbs

Directions

BAKE: 400°

Mix flour, salt, and sugar in food processor fitted with steel blade.

Scatter butter pieces over mixture, tossing to coat butter with a little flour. Cut butter into flour with five one-second pulses. Add shortening; continue cutting in until flour is pale yellow and resembles coarse cornmeal, with butter bits no larger than a small pea, about four more one-second pulses. Turn mixture into medium bowl.

Sprinkle 3 T water over mixture. Using rubber spatula, fold water into flour mixture, then repeatedly press down on dough with broad side of spatula until dough sticks together, adding up to 1 T. more water if dough will not come together. Shape dough into ball with hands, then flatten into 4" disk. Dust lightly with flour, wrap in plastic; refrigerate 30 mins before rolling.

Generously sprinkle work area with 2 T. graham crumbs. Place unwrapped dough in work area and scatter a few more crumbs over disk top. Roll dough from center to edges to make 9" disk, rotating a quarter turn after each stroke and sprinkling additional crumbs underneath and on top, as necessary, to heavily coat dough. Flip dough and continue to roll, without rotating, into 13" disk just under ⅛" thick.

Place dough in 9" Pyrex pie pan. Trim and flute crust. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 mins. Prick shell at ½" intervals. Press a doubled 12" square of aluminium foil inside pie shell. Prick foil. Refrigerate to let dough relax, at least 30 mins. longer.

Bake, checking occasionally for ballooning, until crust is firmly set, about 15 mins. Reduce oven to 350°, remove foil, and continue to bake until crust is crisp and golden brown, about 10 - 15 mins longer. Transfer to wire rack and cool completely.

ORIGINATOR Cook's Illustrated SUBMITTER Grace Wagner <wgmm@...> DATE 9/2/97

Recipe by: Cook's Illustrated, 4/96, p.23 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #769 by "Grace M. Wagner" <wgmm@...> on Sep 02, 1997

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