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Homemade pie shell on a wooden table, with a kitchen towel

Traditional Homemade Pie Shell Recipe

Chef Markus Mueller
A simple and quick homemade pie shell recipe that makes your pies taste so much better that you will never buy a pie shell in the store again.
5 from 3 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Chill Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Baking
Cuisine American, British, French
Servings 1 9 inch pie shell
Calories 1437 kcal

Equipment

stainless steel mixing bowl with flour
mixing bowl
pie pan
pie pan

Ingredients
 
 

  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ tablespoon sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ lb cold butter cut into cubes
  • 7 tablespoon ice cold water

Instructions
 

  • Mix the flour with the sugar and the salt. Dice your cold butter, add it to the flour.
    a stainless steel bowl filled with flour, sugar, salt, and cubed butter
  • Using your hand, break up the butter into small pea-sized pieces or flakes.
    Flour and butter crumbled up in a stainless steel bowl for pie dough
  • Add 7 tablespoon of ice cold water and stir it in with a wooden spoon or spurtle. Once the dough starts to clump together, use your hands to knead it into a ball. Stop kneading as soon as it forms a smooth dough.
  • Flatten the ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or overnight.
    a ball of pie dough
  • Roll out the pie dough and use as directed in your recipe.
    a raw pie crust fully transferred to a pie pan, with the edges not yet crimped

Nutrition

Calories: 1437kcalCarbohydrates: 132gProtein: 18gFat: 94gSaturated Fat: 59gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 24gTrans Fat: 4gCholesterol: 244mgSodium: 1328mgPotassium: 204mgFiber: 4gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 2834IUCalcium: 56mgIron: 8mg

Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.

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