Boiling Water Pie Dough-Very Easy!! - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup boiling water
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preparation

Put the shortening in a medium bowl and pour the boiling water over it.
Whisk for about 1 minute,until smooth and creamy and about the consistency of sour cream.
Add the flour and salt and stir with a fork until you have a ragged looking dough that barely holds together.
Scrape onto a floured surface and push and pat into a round disk 3-4 inches across.
Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.(This is a soft dough and is easier to roll out when it is chilled).
Sprinkle your work surface and the top of the dough, generously with flour, and roll out the dough until it is about 1/8 inch thick and about 12 inches across.
Transfer to a 9 inch pie pan, then trim and flute the edges.
The pie shell is now ready to be filled or baked first and then filled, depending on the recipe.