Madam Benoit's Pie Crust

By JimMac

Ingredients

• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 pound pure lard
• one egg
• 2 tablespoons vinegar
• Coldwater

Preparation

Step 1

sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and brown sugar. Cut in lard with two knives until the size of peas.

Beat egg in a measuring cup, add vinegar and enough cold water to make 3/4 cup. Pour over pastry, blend until it forms a ball, then kneed a few seconds.

Wrap dough and refrigerate. This will yield four double crusts or five bottom crusts and five lattice tops.