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First modifications to crust:
1. Go to Citarella and get pastry flour, use the same proportions for 1 cup flour but use half pastry flour and half all purpose flour and then use all butter and no vegetable shortening. Makes better crust.
2. when you cut the butter into the flour: cut the butter in small pieces and rub flour and butter together in your fingers so that it looks like oatmeal.
3. Finally, after you add the water and make a ball, you have to flour a board or counter, and put the ball of dough on the board. Then you take the heel of your hand and press into in the dough away from you. Keep doing this until the butter is blended into flour and it feels like dough. Then mold the dough into a ball and flour it, wrap it in wax paper, and put in refrigerator for 1-2 hours. Take it out and roll it out.
If you need better directions, the best are in Julia Child, Mastering the ARt of French Cook, vol 1. Otherwise The new YOrk Times Cookbook also has good directions.
Short pastry crust
Categories: Pie crusts
Yield: 8 Servings
1 c Flour,all-purpose
1 pn Salt
4 tb Butter,unsalted,cut/bits
1 ½ tb Vegetable shortening,solid
3 tb Water,cold
Sift the flour and salt together into a large bowl. With 2 knives or a pastry blender, cut in the butter and shortening until mixture is the texture of coarse crumbs. Add only enough water to make a soft dough. Form into a ball, wrap in wax paper and chill for at least 1 hour.
Home***Bourbon Pecan Pie***
for 9" pie pan
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
3 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup dark corn syrup
1 tablespoon Kentucky bourbon
1 cup chopped pecans
1 tablespoon flour
1 half-baked 9-inch pie shell in pan
Garnish:
8 to 10 whole pecans, in halves
Optional:
1/2 cup heavy cream (not ultra-pasteurized)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons Kentucky bourbon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees:
1. Cream butter and add brown sugar slowly, beating constantly until all is absorbed and the mixtures is fluffy.
2. Add eggs, one by one, beating continuously, then add salt, corn syrup, and bourbon.
3. Toss pecans in flour, then fold them into filling.
4. Pour filling into crust.
5. Place in oven and bake for 35 minutes, or until filling is firm.
6. Decorate top by making border of pecan halves and bake for five minutes more.
7. Serve tepid: pie may be garnished with whipped cream flavored with sugar and bourbon.
***Note: Pecans should be fresh. Either buy them in the shells and shell them, or better Fairway has excellent fresh pecans already shelled.