Perfect Shortcrust Pastry
Dustbunny · nigella.com · Serves: 1
Against 179 pie crust recipes
No sugar, unlike 51% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Water in the middle half of recipes: 38% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%.
- Salt in the middle half of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
- No sugar at all, where 51% of recipes use some (most of those 3.4 to 7.8% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (5)
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour≈ 313 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- ½ cup cold butter≈ 114 g
- ½ cup cold vegetable shortening (such as Crisco)≈ 103 g
- 8 tablespoons cold water≈ 118 g
flour 313 gbatter 653 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.
- Fat69% · 63rd percentile · median 65%
- Water38% · 76th percentile · median 30%
- Salt1.9% · 75th 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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