This is my mom's "Never fail pie crust" recipe: 3 cups flour 1 cup shortening 1 tsp salt 1/2 cup water 1 tsp vinegar 1 egg Beat egg and vinegar with water; work shortening into flour and salt. Add the liquid to the flour and make into five balls. Makes five crusts.
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Tip: Vinegar For Flaky Pie Crusts (11/23/2009)
For flaky pie crust, either homemade or ready made, I use vinegar brushed on before adding filling and on top crust. It makes it extra flaky.
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Tip: Vinegar For Flaky Pie Crusts
Archived on 11/23/2009
For flaky pie crust, either homemade or ready made, I use vinegar brushed on before adding filling and on top crust. It makes it extra flaky.
By Aunt Peg from Cortland, OH
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RE: Vinegar For Flaky Pie Crusts
Thanks. In all the hints I have accumulated over the years, I have never come across this one. Will use it in the next pie. Does it matter which vinegar: cider or white? (02/19/2007)
