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Article: What Mom knew about pie crust.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 17, 2008
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Byline: Judith Gorfain
Sometime during the first year I was married, back in the 1960s, my mom taught me how to make a pie crust. She didn't begin by handing me a recipe to follow, as I expected. Instead, she got out a mixing bowl, some all-purpose flour, salt, shortening, some cold water in a Pyrex measuring cup, a pastry blender, and a fork.
At first I assumed she was going to make the pastry, without a recipe in sight, as I watched. But that's not what she had in mind. I'd be the one to make the pie crust, as she watched, instructing me.
It was a deceptively simple procedure. She had me place a few scoops of flour into the mixing bowl and ...