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The Flakiest All-Butter Pie Crust

Cleobuttera · cleobuttera.com · 2018 · 9

Against 179 pie crust recipes

More fat than 88% of recipes and more sugar than 82%.

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How it compares

Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • More fat than 88% of recipes: 80% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 65%.
  • More sugar than 82% of recipes: 7.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 5.5 times as much.
Fat: 80%, 89th percentileWater: 34%, 63rd percentileSalt: 1.7%, 61st percentileSugar: 7.3%, 83rd percentileFatWaterSaltSugar
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (5)

  • 10 tablespoons (5oz/ 142g) unsalted butter, chilled142 g
  • 1 ¼ cups (6 1/4oz/ 177g) all-purpose flour (must be weighed*)177 g
  • 1 tablespoon (1/2oz/ 13g) granulated sugar13 g
  • ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
  • ¼ cup (60ml) ice water≈ 59 g

flour 177 gbatter 394 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.

  • Fat80% · 89th percentile
  • Water34% · 63rd percentile
  • Salt1.7% · 61st percentile
  • Sugar7.3% · 83rd percentile

Oven

Temperature
350°F / 175°C
median 390°F
Time
15 to 20 minutes
median 20 minutes

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