Basic Pie Dough

By MystiQ

Ingredients

• single crust pie
• 1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour
• 1 Tsp. of sugar
• 12 Tbs. of cold butter
• 1/4 cup of ice water

Preparation

Step 1

Place the flour and the sugar in the bowl of a food processor, using the dough blade. Pulse. Add half of the butter. Pulse a few times. Add the rest of the butter and keep pulsing until the butter and the flour form coarse crumbs. Add some of the water and pulse a couple of times, adding more water until the crumbs form a ball. Take the dough and make a disc. Place it on a floured plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.