Easy Pie Crust Recipe
aspicyperspective.com · 2025 · 2 single pie crusts
Against 179 pie crust recipes
Less water than 98% of recipes and more sugar than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less water than 98% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 78% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 5 times as much.
Ingredients (7)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 2 tablespoons sugar≈ 25 g
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (chilled and cut into cubes)≈ 170 g
- 6 tablespoons shortening (chilled and cut into cubes)≈ 77 g
- 2 tablespoons amaretto (rum, brandy, cognac...)≈ 30 g
- 2-3 tablespoons cold milk≈ 38 g
flour 375 gbatter 721 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.
- Fat66% · 54th percentile · median 65%
- Water10% · 1st percentile · median 30%
- Salt1.6% · 56th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar6.7% · 80th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 390°F
- Time
- 18 to 20 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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