Homemade Pie Crust With Lard
An easy recipe for a soft, flaky and delicious double pie crust!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup lard
- 1/4-1/2 cup ice water
Instructions
- Add 2 cups of flour to a large mixing bowl. Then add in one cup of lard in chunks.
- Then use a pastry blender or a fork and cut the lard into the flour just until it has formed coarse crumbs. It may seem like there are large chunks of lard but that's okay!
- Next, add in a few tablespoons of ice water and mix slightly. Continue adding one tablespoon at a time until the dough sticks together.
- Once the dough comes together, use your hands and press the dough together into a ball.
- Then split the dough in half with one half slightly larger which will be for the bottom crust.
- Put both halves of dough into the fridge and chill for 15 minutes.
- After chilling the dough, roll out a pie crust mat (which is optional, but I love it) and sprinkle it with flour.
- Then lightly flour your hands and rolling pin.
- Take the bigger half of dough, which is for the bottom crust and roll it out on the floured surface. If the dough starts sticking to the rolling pin or surface just add more flour. Then after it's rolled out, place it in your pie plate.
- Fill the crust with your pie filling of choice such as apple pie filling.
- Repeat the same process and roll out your top crust and once complete place it on top or your pie.
- Cut off the extra dough along the edges, leaving about 1/2 an inch to fold the bottom crust over the top crust, and press together which will keep the filling from oozing out the sides.