Recipe: How To Make Pie Crust: From Scratch: Best Homemade Easy Pie Dough Recipe for apple, and pumpkin pies, tarts, crostatas: Demonstration by hand for rolling dough and crimping Simple Old Fashioned Pie Crust Recipe @ This is my homemade pie crust recipe, perfect for sweet and savory pies, tarts, quiches, crostatas and for chicken pot pie crust (meat pie). I make the pie crust by hand, instead of making the dough in a food processor, as I feel it gives me more control, which results in a light, crisp and flaky pie crust. I do make it in the food processor, if Im in a hurry and need to make a quick pie dough, but I like making pie crust by hand for that real, old fashioned pie feel. Its also kind of relaxing, plus theres less clean up. Its so easy to learn how to use a pastry blender to cut butter into flour and clean up is simple. When I first started baking, I learned how to cut butter into flour with two knives, which youll see in this recipe demonstration video, so dont worry if you dont even have a pastry blender pastry cutter, you dont need any fancy tools to make the perfect pie crust recipe, just a few basic items and simple ingredients. The instructions, for all recipes, are on my website, but the ingredients for this dough are: all purpose flour, butter, shortening, sugar, salt and ice cold water. Simple and Easy! Making pie crust with butter and with shortening, creates a pastry with buttery flavor and flakey texture, that everyone associates with the best pie crust recipe. A shortcrust pastry recipe (pate brisee) is similar to this basic pie crust recipe, but that is an all butter crust recipe or buttercrust recipe, as some call it. Rolling the dough is simple, when its chilled in the refrigerator, but this pie dough can be made ahead and frozen for 3-4 weeks. I make a few pie crust designs, but basically I pinch the edges with my fingers or press the edges with a fork. My Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe, Apple Pie recipe and Pumpkin Pie recipe and apple crostata recipe are among my favorite fruit pies. Recipes for savory pies, that I use this pie dough recipe for, include my: chicken pot pie recipe, spinach quiche recipe (quiche florentine), quiche lorraine recipe, and mincemeat pie recipemince pie. When I show you how to make apple crostata, which has a very rustic look, youll see theres no fuss at all with that crust. You dont even need a pie plate! Pie crust crimping and cut out designs require another video tutorial. There are lots of pie dough desserts, so get in the kitchen & watch my pie crust recipe demonstration video and Ill show you How to Make Homemade Pie Crust Reipce ! Moms Best Pie Dough Recipe! Recipes & Videos for Pies, Pastries, Desserts and More on my Channel and Website. \rbrDessert Recipes I Like: \rbrStrawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe: From Scratch: Moms Best! \rbrHomemade Pumpkin Pie Recipe: How To Make Pumpkin Pie: \rbrApple Pie Recipe! From Scratch! How to make Apple Pie: \rbrStrawberry Ice Cream Recipe: With Ice Cream Maker! Easy! \rbrFruit Tart Recipe: How To Make: With Filling: Easy! \rbrShort Bread Crust Recipe: How to make: For Tarts, Pies: Easy:\rbr \rbrPastry Cream Recipe: Creme Patissiere: \rbrHow to Make Cream Puffs: Cream Puffs Recipe: From Scratch Profiteroles: Pate a Choux: \rbrLemon Bars - Lemon Squares \rbrWhipped Cream Frosting Recipe \rbrButtercream Frosting Recipe \rbrCream Cheese Frosting Recipe \rbrHomemade Brownies Recipe (The BEST!) \rbrHomemade Chocolate Pudding:\rbr \rbr\rbrSUBSCRIBE! Id love to have you! Leave me a comment here or on my Facebook Page and let me know if theres something youd like to see.