2. Have all your ingredients ready, a food
processor, and a large and small mixing
bowl
3. Put your flour, sugar and salt into the
food processor. Pulse a few times to
mix
4. Add chilled butter and shortening.
Pulse in 10 second intervals (about 3-4
times)
5. Mixture should be coarse crumbs with a
few pea sized pieces. Pour into large
mixing bowl. (if there are a few larger pieces just use your
finger to pinch them apart)
6. In your small bowl whisk together egg
yolks, ice water, and vinegar
Since thanksgiving is next month it seems appropriate to learn how to make pies, and The best place to start with pie making is learning how to make a pie crust.
Even for people that consider themselves good bakers, making a good pie crust can be a little intimidating. This is really because the dough goes through a lot of stages before it actually looks like dough and most people take a look at it before its finished and think that they messed up.
What really helps is to watch pie crust being made so that you know what it looks like during each part. So that is what we are going to do today.
After we make our dough it needs to chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour (preferably a couple hours) so I'll send the dough home with you, but I will walk you through how to neatly trim it in your pie dish. And bonus, pie crust dough that is wrapped and bagged will last for several months in the freezer. Just take it our the night before you are going to use it and put it in the fridge. So , if you want, you can make a couple pie crust tonight and they will still be ready in the freezer for your thanksgiving pie.
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1½ teaspoons kosher salt
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
¼ cup chilled vegetable shortening, cut into pieces
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar