Rose Withrow’s Pie Dough

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cornmeal
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons (heaping) butter or vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 1/2 tablespoon vinegar

Steps

1. Sift the flour, baking powder, cornmeal and salt.
2. Cut in the shortening, then add the cold water and vinegar and mix with a fork.
3. Form into a ball.

Notes

Makes a 2-crust pie or 2 single crusts.

Sent in by Rose Withrow of St. Joseph, Missouri.

The clipping reads “butter vegetable shortening”; it most likely means butter-flavored or plain vegetable shortening.

From a newspaper feature of reader pie-crust recipes (“The best pie crusts you’ve ever tasted”, tested by Beryle Wyatt) that Rosie Lee saved; the whole page is shown below.

Photo: stock photo found online.

Rosie Lee’s original recipe card

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