Perfect Pie Crust For Double Crust Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
8 -10 tablespoons water

Preparation

In a medium bowl, stir together flour and salt. Cut in shortening using a pastry blender or fork until shortening is in pea-sized pieces (I usually use my hand crank chopper to do this).
Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing with fork in between, until all of the flour mixture is moistened and can be formed into a ball. Divide mixture in half.
At this point, you can roll dough into a 12 inch circle on a lightly floured surface, but I prefer to tape a 12 inch square piece of waxed paper to my work surface with double sided tape, put my dough on that, then cover with another piece of waxed paper, and roll out.
When dough is in a circle as big as your waxed paper (ie 12 inch circle), peel off the top layer of waxed paper and discard.
Lift the dough and bottom layer of waxed paper up and invert onto your pie pan. Gently peel the waxed paper off.
Do the same with the other 1/2 of your dough to make your top crust.
Before placing pie in the oven, wrap a 3 inch wide strip of foil around the edge of your crust, allowing 2 inches to fold over the top of your pie. 1/2 way through your bake time, carefully pull the foil off and finish baking. Your crust will turn out perfect every time!