Our Grandma's Fab Pastry - Recipe

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OUR GRANDMA'S FAB PASTRY

Our Grandmother Anne Guild made delicious pies for family and for the Mount Edith Cavell Tearoom at the foot of the Angel Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta for over 30 years. Her trademark pastry recipe is slightly sweet and very flaky. A prized recipe in our family!

PASTRY:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tbsp. white sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup lard (or shortening - She liked Crisco best)
1 large egg
1/4 cup ice-cold cold water
1/2 tsp. vinegar

Don't grease pie pans, Enough grease in dough not to stick. This tastes great as apple pie (need 8 large apples for one pie). Use a 9-inch pie shell. Cook pie on lowest oven rack. Oven temps is 450°F to bake pastry first 10 minutes. Then turn down to 350°F for 30 to 35 minutes.

Combine dry ingredients. Cut in lard/shortening. Separately beat egg with cold water. Add vinegar to that. Then mix in flour and rest of dry ingredients. ** CHILL 1 HOUR in refrigerator ** (for flaky delicateness). Roll out chilled dough on floured flat surface.

Makes 2 complete pies, with tops.

TIPS:

Before putting filling/fruit in your bottom pie crust, put extra flour there (soaks up excess juices which can burn crust and make it too thin). After you've put the top on your pie be sure to cut some 'air vents' with a knife (slits) and also spread a bit of milk and sugar on the very top of pie. Browns it nicely. Seal your edges of pastry (bottom and top crust) with milk before you do the 'fluting' around the edges.

This pie always but always turned out great for our Grandmother Anne and Mother Marion. Enjoy!!!

Submitted by: Rhonda & Brenda

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Our Grandma's Fab Pastry

· Mar 25 · #184339

Phyllis (Virginia) says:

As I did read this recipe... took me back many years, to my childhood, watching a great cook in our family. She had a large family, always prepared fresh biscuits daily, with every evening meal having a dessert. Big family, big garden, huge amounts of food on table. The OLD DAYS were hard - but they WERE the best. Will attempt this in next few days to see if I can replicate. Thanks for sharing.

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