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PLAIN PASTRY WESTINGHOUSE
9-inch piepan
.
.. Preheated oven-425
, .
..
Baking
time-15 to 20
minutes
2 cups sifted all-purpose
flour
3/4
teaspoon salt
2,6 cup lard or shortening
6
to 8
tablespoons cold
water
Sift flour
once before
measuring,
then sift again
with
salt. Cut
in
lard leaving pieces
of
fat as large
as
peas.
Add
the
water
all
at
once,
then
mix with fork,
cutting
through the mixture with
each
stroke.
When
all gathers
together
so that
the bowl is left
clean,
dough may be
chilled
or rolled
out at once. Chilling before
rolling
gives a
more flaky
pie
crust.
Roll out pastry, using flour
generously
on board
and
rolling pin. Do not
stretch
pastry
after
it has been
rolled
and
is ready to place in piepan. Roll it on the rolling pin,
then unroll it on the piepan. Recipe will make two 9-inch shells or
one double-crust
9-inch
pie.
SEAL DOUBLE-CRUST PIE LIKE THIS:
pastry
and pies
1. Divide dough into 2 parts.
Roll each into a circle
Ys
inch thick. Invert piepan
on one part and
cut
around
edge with
a sharp
knife.
Cut vents in this top
crust.
2. Cut
second
circle 1 inch
larger than
piepan.
Place
this larger
crust
in piepan
and pour filling
into
it.
Moisten
edge
of lower
crust
with
cold
water.
3. Place top
crust
over fill-
ing.
Bring edges of bottom
crust
up over top
crust.
Flute or roll edges to-
gether carefully
to form
an
even
and
completely
sealed
rim.
PIE SHELLS
Pie shells usually
shrink.
If the method described below is used,
this
will be
avoided.
1. Roll out pie pastry
2
inches wider than the
piepan.
2.
Place
loosely in piepan, fitting pastry
around
bottom
and sides
of pan. Be
careful
not to
stretch
it.
3. Turn edges
so
that
about
1 inch of pastry overlaps the edge of
the pan.
4. Turn this
overlapping
edge under, then flute the rim.
Prick
bottom
and
sides with a
fork.
Space pricks quite clo3e together.
5. Temperature 425
°.
Baking time 15-20 minutes.
MERINGUE FOR PIE
1. Use
3 egg
whites to
cover
a
9-inch
pie.
2. Use 2 level tablespoons gran-
ulated
sugar
to each egg.
3. Beat egg whites
stiff.
They
should
be glossy on top, and
when
you
invert the
bowl,
they
should
remain in
place.
4. Fold
in
the sugar
gradually.
5. Cover pie or
pudding.
6.
Bake at
350,
for 18 minutes.
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