22.4.10

PIE PASTRY

I used to call this the Mrs Walker Pastry. Once upon a time Mrs Marybell Walker and her friend Evelyn Jackson went to Seattle and there they both had great pie. Since they were from Canada, the owner of the coffee shop gave them his pastry recipe. It was good, but over the years I made it even better.  The amount of water in the recipe was left to the imagination. Then one day I started adding eggs to the water, and I do mean eggs, because when you make a dozen of these pies you will need a lot of eggs. The last time I made pies I made nineteen.
 
So it’s a lardy recipe, but you needn’t to fall over. Instead consider for a moment that people used to cook with lard all the time and yet they were skinny. But these days we are health conscious and we exercise and we wouldn’t touch lard with a ten foot pole and yet most of us are overweight. Certainly, this is not because of lard, because Crisco stopped us from eating lard long time ago. In truth lard is  healthier than artificial fats, like margarine and shortening. 
 
One other different thing about this pastry is it is not chilled. How this works is irrelevant, it just works. Try it, you never had a flakier, lighter and better tasting pastry before mine. I for one find shortening based pastries heavy, no matter how much people chill the stuff.
 
PIE PASTRY
1 cup lard, soft
1/4 cup butter, soft
3 cups flour
salt to taste
2 eggs + cold water
 
• Beat the lard and the butter until very fluffy.
• With a wooden spoon gently stir in the flour and the salt. Do not beat.
• In a measuring cup, beat the eggs slightly and add ice water to make 2/3 cup liquid.
• With a wooden spoon combine the egg mixture with the flour mix.
• Recipe can make up to 5 pie crusts. For lattice pies, large, decorative pie plates and fluted edging you will need considerably more pastry.

 

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It began with posting a few recipes on line for the family. "zsuzsa is in the kitchen" has more than 1000 Hungarian and International recipes. What started out as a private project turned into a well visited blog. The number of visitors long passed the two million mark. I organized the recipes into an on-line cookbook. On top of the page click on "ZSUZSA'S COOKBOOK". From there click on any of the chapters to access the recipes. For the archive just scroll to the bottom of the page. I am not profiting from my blog, so visitors are not harassed with advertising or flashy gadgets. The recipes are not broken up with photos at every step. Where needed the photos are placed following the recipe. Feel free to cut and paste my recipes for your own use. Publication is permitted as long as it is in your own words and with your own photographs. However, I would ask you for an acknowledgement and link-back to my blog. Happy cooking!