Best Ever Pie Crust
Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2023 · 1 to 2 pie crusts
Against 179 pie crust recipes
More salt than 91% of recipes and more fat than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 91% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
- More fat than 82% of recipes: 75% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 65%.
- More sugar than 77% of recipes: 6.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 5 times as much.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 1/2 cups (191 grams) all-purpose flour191 g
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 4.5 g
- 10 tablespoons (142 grams) cold unsalted butter142 g
- 4 to 6 tablespoons ice cold water≈ 74 g
- 3 cups (381 grams) all-purpose flour381 g
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt≈ 9 g
- 2 1/2 sticks (284 grams) cold unsalted butter284 g
- 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup ice cold water≈ 119 g
flour 572 gbatter 1242 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.
- Fat75% · 82nd percentile · median 65%
- Water34% · 64th percentile · median 30%
- Salt2.4% · 94th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar6.6% · 78th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 390°F
- Time
- 15 to 17 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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