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Pastry With No Trans Fat
 
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 0 Minutes
Ready In: 20 Minutes
Servings: 8
Tested in the Canadian Living Test Kitchen til perfect!
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup cold butter, cubed
1/3 cup ice water (or more)
Directions:
1. Whisk flour with salt in a large bowl.
2. Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until in coarse crumbs with a few larger pieces.
3. Stirring briskly with a fork, drizzle ice waterover flour mixture until pastry holds together, sprinkling dry spots with more water, if necessary, 1 tbsp at a time.
4. Divide pastry in half, pressing into discs.
5. On generously floured surface, roll 1 disc out to a scant 1/4 inch thickness.
6. Roll around rolling pin; unroll over 9 inch pie plate, gently pressing dough to fit.
7. Trim, leaving 3/4 inch overhang.
8. Roll out remaining pastry for top to a scant 1/4 inch thickness& transfer to a rimless baking sheet.
9. Refrigerate pie shell& pastry top until firm, about an hour.
10. Use for your favourite summer fruit pie.
By RecipeOfHealth.com