Foolproof Pie Dough Recipe
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2018 · 2 nine-inch rounds
Against 179 pie crust recipes
More water than 90% of recipes and less salt than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More water than 90% of recipes: 44% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%.
- Less salt than 84% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 86% of recipes: 7.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 6 times as much.
Ingredients (5)
- 2½ cups (320g) all-purpose flour320 g
- 2 tablespoons sugar≈ 25 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt≈ 2 g
- 16 tablespoons (227g) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and chilled227 g
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons (142g) ice water142 g
flour 320 gbatter 716 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 179 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Fat71% · 67th percentile · median 65%
- Water44% · 91st percentile · median 30%
- Salt0.6% · 14th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar7.8% · 87th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 390°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 20 minutes
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