Perfect Pie Crust
tarasmulticulturaltable.com · 2021 · 2 Pie Crusts
Against 179 pie crust recipes
Less salt than 88% of recipes and more sugar than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 88% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, under a third as much.
- More sugar than 78% of recipes: 6.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 5 times as much.
Ingredients (5)
- 3 cups (375 grams) flour375 g
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) sugar25 g
- 1/4 teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 1 cup (2 sticks, 226 grams) cold butter (cut into small pieces)226 g
- 8-10 tablespoons (120-150 milliliters) ice water≈ 133 g
flour 375 gbatter 761 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.
- Fat60% · 43rd percentile · median 65%
- Water36% · 67th percentile · median 30%
- Salt0.4% · 9th percentile · median 1.4%
- Sugar6.7% · 80th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 390°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 20 minutes
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