Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
3/4 cup shortening
5-6 Tbsp. ice water
Preparation
Put 2 cups flour in bowl. Add salt and shortening. Measure shortening by displacing water in a measuring cup.
Cut the shortening into the flour using two knives. Don’t overwork the dough or it won’t be flakey.
Add ice water, 1 Tbsp. at a time until dough is moist, but not wet.
Sprinkle rolling surface with flour, and also the rolling pin,
Divide dough in half. Roll bottom dough; then add pie filling, then put on top dough.
Pinch or tuck edges. Make slits for steam to escape. Use little leaf cut-outs to decorate the top.
Brush dough with milk for golden browning.
