Three-in-One All-Butter Pie Dough

Name: Three-in-One All-Butter Pie Dough
Yield: Makes enough for one 9-inch pie
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups (7½ ounces; 213 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon, sugar, plus about 5 cups to use as pie weight; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled; 6 tablespoons, ice water

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2018

Desserts or Baked Goods

It took us more than 80 attempts, but we created a recipe for a tasty all-butter pie dough that is actually easy to work with.

SERVESMakes enough for one 9-inch pie

TIME25 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling (for fully baked pie crust: 2 hours, plus 2 hours chilling and 20 minutes cooling)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For this flaky, ultrabuttery pie crust, we ditched the traditional and time-consuming step of forming the dough into a disk and chilling it before rolling it out. Instead, we rolled it out immediately after the dough came together in the fo...

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