Rich, Flaky Pie Dough

Name: Rich, Flaky Pie Dough
Yield: Enough to cover one 13-by-9-inch pan
Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1 1/2 cups (7 1/2 ounces/213 grams), unbleached all-purpose flour; 4 tablespoons, vegetable shortening, chilled; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1/4 pound), chilled and cut into 1/4-inch pieces

Desserts or Baked Goods
Savory Pies & Tarts
Thanksgiving

Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1996

We adapted this pie dough especially for our chicken pot pie.

SERVES Enough to cover one 13-by-9-inch pan

TIME 25 minutes, plus 30 minutes chilling

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