Easy Pie Crust
jessicagavin.com · 2021 · 12 servings
Against 179 pie crust recipes
More fat than 98% of recipes and more water than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 98% of recipes: 106% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 65%.
- More water than 95% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%.
- Less salt than 87% of recipes: 0.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, about half 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)
- 3 cups all-purpose (flour plus more for dusting)≈ 375 g
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt (or table salt)≈ 2 g
- 1 ¾ cups unsalted butter (cut into ½" cubes, chilled)≈ 397 g
- ¾ cup ice-cold water (chilled)≈ 178 g
flour 375 gbatter 952 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.
- Fat106% · 99th percentile · median 65%
- Water47% · 96th percentile · median 30%
- Salt0.5% · 12th 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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