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Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1/3 cup ice water (or more)
Method
- Whisk flour with salt in a large bowl.
- Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until in coarse crumbs with a few larger pieces.
- 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.
- Divide pastry in half, pressing into discs.
- On generously floured surface, roll 1 disc out to a scant 1/4 inch thickness.
- Roll around rolling pin; unroll over 9 inch pie plate, gently pressing dough to fit.
- Trim, leaving 3/4 inch overhang.
- Roll out remaining pastry for top to a scant 1/4 inch thickness& transfer to a rimless baking sheet.
- Refrigerate pie shell& pastry top until firm, about an hour.
- Use for your favourite summer fruit pie.
