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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

Notes

This homemade pie shell recipe makes enough dough to fill one 9" (230 mm) pie pan. If you want to make a lattice or need a cover for your pie (such as in this traditional apple pie recipe), double the amounts in the pie crust recipe, and you will have more than enough to work with.

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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