Easy Flaky Pastry (2 crusts)

Good Housekeeping, February 1951

20 minutes — 2 8" or 9" pie crusts

Ingredients

2 1⁄4	cup	all-purpose flour (sifted)
1	teaspoon	salt
3⁄4	cup	shortening (solid vegetable shortening or lard)
1⁄3	cup	cold water

Instructions

Measure flour and salt into sifter set in bowl; Sift; remove 1/4 cup to small bowl; reserve.

Cut shortening into flour with pastry blender or 2 knives, scissors fashion, until size of small peas.

With water, mix reserved 1/4 cup flour to paste. Stir into flour mixture with blending fork or 2-tined fork until particles cling together when pressed gently.

Form pastry into ball between cupped hands; roll out. Or if very warm day, wrap in waxed paper or foil (ed: or plastic wrap); chill up to 1/2 hour; then roll.