Perfect Pie Crust Recipe
baking-sense.com · 2017 · 10 servings
Against 179 pie crust recipes
Close to the middle of 179 pie crust recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Fat in the middle half of recipes: 52% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 65%.
- Sugar in the middle half of recipes: 3.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (7)
- 10 oz all purpose flour (2 cups (see note))284 g
- 3 ½ oz cake flour (⅔ cup)99 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 3 oz vegetable shortening (or leaf lard)85 g
- 4 oz unsalted butter (very cold and sliced into ¼" slices)113 g
- 4 oz ice cold water (½ cup)113 g
flour 383 gbatter 713 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.
- Fat52% · 33rd percentile · median 65%
- Water30% · 50th percentile · median 30%
- Salt1.6% · 56th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar3.3% · 59th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 390°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 20 minutes
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