90-Second Chef: How to Make the Best Pie Dough
Watch to see how we developed a method to perfect pie dough, every time. Hint: It involves vodka.
Pie dough can go wrong very easily, from dry and crumbly to leathery and tough. But with our tips, you won’t have anything to worry about.
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From one of my ATK TV show cookbook (seasons 2001-2012)
Foolproof Double-crust Pie Dough
2-1/2 C (12 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out
2 T sugar
1 tsp table salt
12 T (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces and chilled
1/2 C vegetable shortening, cut into 4 pieces and chilled
1/4 C vodka, chilled
1/4 C ice water
(T – Tablespoon, tsp = teaspoon)
Note from cookbook:
This dough is moister than most standard pie doughs and will require lots of flour to roll out (up to 1/4 cup). The dough, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, can be refrigerated for up to 2 days or frozen for up to 1 month. If frozen, let the dough thaw completely on the counter before rolling it out.
There would not be so much gluten if this were mixed by hand instead of the food processor.
What if you added bourbon and then did a lemon curd filling…. let that noodle around for a minute or 2
Not much help without the recipe. How much butter etc? 😩
Don’t know where else to post this. I made the “new” pie crust today. I’ve never been as successful as I was with this method. I deleted the episode from my DVR so I can’t even post the episode number. It’s the one where they made chocolate pudding pie and blind baked it. I made apple with a crumb topping. The sample with food coloring is what made me try it. Husband came home with frozen shells…just in case. Loves his apple pie. He likes the crust I made, too. Thanks ATK. I think I’ll package several to freeze to have on hand.
For someone who doesn't drink alcohol, nor use it in cooking, this isn't an ideal recipe.
Where is the actual recipe? Video calls for four tablespoons of vodka – for how much of other stuff? :0)
Why am I watching this? I despise pie and shitty whistle music.
What if you can't use alcohol at all even though it burns off?
Great advice, as always, from ATK. However, get rid of the stupid whistling music in the background that distracts from the person talking. We're here to see her recipe, and not to go to a whistle concert.
so.. some water ok?..or necessary?.. 190 grain (95% ethanol)?
You can put the pie recipe in the comments section….
It's Howdy Doody Time!
Perfect pie crust? Hell yes! Great job America's Test Kitchen…you are becoming my favorite source for cooking info.
As someone who has Alcohol Intolerance I have to jump in. Alcohol Intolerance is like an allergy and the symptoms are like food poisoning. Please check the most recent studies on this myth that alcohol all burns off during cooking. It does not. Please stop perpetuating this myth.
The other one they did on the show where they made it so moist it had to be refrigerated and maybe even rolled between sheets of plastic looked a lot better than this recipe. As I write this I'm waiting for my apple pie to cool and boy does it looks and smells like perfection! I think the stand mixer does a better job than a food processor, the secret is keeping things cold.
this is great pie i fill with bacon an ketchup for american special its delicious top with hot dog
cool idea, but I'd rather use rum. but i can see why you'd use vodka, less flavor.
That's the first I've heard of adding alcohol to pie crust dough. Hmmm……
Awesome!