Foolproof All-Butter Dough for Double-Crust Pie

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2005, America's Test Kitchen TV

Our ultimate pie dough. It uses all butter, it’s dead easy to roll, and it bakes up tender, crisp, and shatteringly flaky.

SERVESMakes one 9-inch double crust

TIME35 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling

Foolproof All-Butter Dough for Double-Crust Pie

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our goal was to create a supple, moist all-butter pie dough that rolled out easily and baked up tender and flaky. We first used the food processor to coat two-thirds of the flour with butter, creating a pliable mixture that was water-resist...

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