Why Cold Butter?
Cold butter will give you a flakier pie crust verses if you melt the butter it will make your crust hard and difficult to slice. I’ve always melted the butter due to impatience and found it easier to mix the dough. The day I finally tried using cold butter, I will continue to use it from this day forward. It was so much easier to slice the finished pie, with a more enjoyable bite. My husband however, loves the crunchier crust buts eats it no matter how it’s prepared.
Extra Pie Dough? Some recipes only require a bottom pie shell with no crust on top. I like to make little jam filled pastries for a delicious snack.
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- 2 cups Gluten Free Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Butter (cold & cubed)
- 1/2 cup Water
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- Add all ingredients together until ball forms. I use my hand to help mash the butter in but if you're worried about the butter melting then use a fork or pastry cutter to help you incorporate the butter. Add 1-2 tablespoons of water as needed if dough is too dry.
- This makes enough dough for either . . . 1 pie with top and bottom crust (or one thick bottom crust) 2 pies with bottom crust only 2 mini pies with top and bottom crust 4 mini pies with bottom crust only
- Bake pie crusts at 450°F for 10 minutes or until starting to brown.
*Butter will make for a flakier crust vs coconut oil with make your crust more crunchy.
**Sometimes I occasionally decide to swap out half the gf flour for almond flour or rolled oats that have ground up into flour. It makes for less starches and tastes just fine. Pie crust isn't too finicky to changes in flour type.
I am really worried about following a gluten-free diet, due to the fact that many people wrote about it’s cons. So if you have a good topic covering that it will be okay.
If your body doesn’t react negatively to gluten then it’s not recommended to go gluten free if you don’t have to. For instance I get really bad arthritis if I eat any wheat so I have to avoid it. A gluten free diet can be healthy, just don’t eat the processed gluten free products from the store. I make and bake most of my own diet from scratch. Thanks for the suggestion, I will consider writing a post on this in the future.