Perfect Pie Crust by Hand
bakeschool.com · 2024 · 1 9-inch pie crust+scraps
Against 179 pie crust recipes
Less salt than 88% of recipes and no sugar, unlike 51%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 88% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, under a third as much.
- No sugar at all, where 51% of recipes use some (most of those 3.4 to 7.8% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (4)
- 250 grams bleached all-purpose flour250 g
- 1.25 mL Diamond Crystal fine kosher salt≈ 0.9 g
- 170 grams unsalted butter (cold, cut into little cubes)170 g
- 60 mL cold water≈ 60 g
flour 250 gbatter 481 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.
- Fat68% · 57th percentile · median 65%
- Water24% · 27th percentile · median 30%
- Salt0.4% · 9th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar0% · 24th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 390°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 20 minutes
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