Baked Pie Shell

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2011

Using a secret ingredient, this easy shell bakes up deliciously buttery and flaky—perfect for our Fresh Strawberry Pie.

SERVES Makes one 9-inch pie shell

TIME 1 hour, plus 2 hours chilling and 20 minutes cooling

Baked Pie Shell

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We knew that our Fresh Strawberry Pie recipe needed a flaky, buttery crust to contain all of the fresh strawberries we were using. For a pie dough recipe that baked up tender and flaky and rolled out easily every time, we found a magic ingr...

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