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, unbleached all-purpose flour; 4 tablespoons, vegetable shortening, chilled; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1/4 pound), chilled and cut into 1/4-inch pieces

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1996

Desserts or Baked Goods

Savory Pies & Tarts

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

SERVESEnough to cover one 13-by-9-inch pan

TIME25 minutes, plus 30 minutes chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To keep our pot pie recipe from becoming overly rich and complicated, we ruled out a double crust, instead developing this single crust flaky pie dough recipe. If you like a bottom crust in your pot pie, you can duplicate that soft crust te...

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