Perfect Pie Crust
leitesculinaria.com · 2010 · 8 servings | 1 (9-inch) single pie crust
Against 179 pie crust recipes
More fat than 97% of recipes and less salt than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More fat than 97% of recipes: 91% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 65%.
- Less salt than 84% of recipes: 0.6% 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)
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 156 g
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 1 g
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter≈ 142 g
- 2 to 5 tablespoons ice water≈ 52 g
flour 156 gbatter 351 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.
- Fat91% · 98th percentile · median 65%
- Water33% · 60th percentile · median 30%
- Salt0.6% · 14th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar0% · 24th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 390°F
- Time
- 60 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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