But which fat is best for pie dough? Vegetable oil will produce a crumbly textured dough. Lard produces a crisp flaky crust.

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The goal is for the oil to blend seamlessly into the crust, helping to bring the dry ingredients together to make a dough without impacting the final flavors of the pie or the pie's filling.

As the late writer Nora Ephron once said, “There’s no point in making pie crust from scratch ... any butter but is instead made with palm oil.) Its nutty, toasty notes would pair beautifully ...

This indispensable pastry cookbook will show you, step by step, how to easily and quickly make pie crust that is both tender and flaky—and that will have everyone clamoring for seconds.

However, this could also be the year when we finally overcome our pastry fears once and for all, and give homemade pie crust a try. “The biggest mistake home bakers tend to make is quitting before ...