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Basic Pie Dough

Basic Pie Dough Ingredients: wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched salt, table sugars, granulated butter, without salt water, bottled, generic Directions: In a food processor, briefly pulse flour, salt, and suga...

Basic Pie Dough

Ingredients:
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
salt, table
sugars, granulated
butter, without salt
water, bottled, generic

Directions:
In a food processor, briefly pulse flour, salt, and sugar to combine.
Add butter; pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal, with a few pea-size pieces of butter remaining.
Add 2 tablespoons ice water.
Pulse until dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed (if necessary, add up to 2 tablespoons more water, 1 tablespoon at a time).
Do not overmix.
Turn out dough onto a large piece of plastic wrap.
Fold plastic over dough; press to shape into a 1-inch-thick disk.
Wrap in plastic.
Refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour (or up to 3 days), or freeze up to 3 months; thaw overnight in the refrigerator before using.