Best Pie Crust Recipe
Gemma Stafford · biggerbolderbaking.com · 2020 · 1 - 2 pie crusts
Against 179 pie crust recipes
Less salt than 88% of recipes and less water than 78%.
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.
- Less water than 78% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%.
Ingredients (12)
- 1⅓ cups (6 ½ oz/185 g) all-purpose flour185 g
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar≈ 8 g
- ⅛ teaspoon salt≈ 0.8 g
- 7 tablespoons (3 ½ oz/100 g) butter (, cold and cubed)100 g
- 1 large egg yolk≈ 18 g
- 2 - 3 tablespoons water (, cold)≈ 37 g
- 2 ⅔ cups (13 oz/370 g) all-purpose flour370 g
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar≈ 15 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 14 tablespoons (7 oz/200 g) butter, cold and cubed200 g
- 2 large egg yolks≈ 36 g
- 4-6 tablespoons water, cold≈ 74 g
flour 555 gbatter 1045 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.
- Fat54% · 37th percentile · median 65%
- Water20% · 19th percentile · median 30%
- Salt0.4% · 9th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar4.1% · 71st percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 390°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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