Cassandra Wegener’s Favorite Flaky Pie Crust

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup cold water

Steps

1. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.
2. Pour the oil and water into the flour and stir lightly with a fork.
3. Form into 2 balls and flatten them slightly with your hands.
4. Roll into circles and fit into pans.

Notes

Makes 2 single 9-inch crusts or 1 double crust. Especially good for apple or any fruit filling.

Sent in by Cassandra Wegener of Higginsville, Missouri.

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.

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