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<\/a><\/p>\nEasy Food Processor Pie Crust Blend flour, sugar, and salt in processor. Add butter and shortening; and blend until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 6 tablespoons ice water and continue to mix until dough begins to clump together, adding more water by teaspoonfuls if it’s too dry. Divide dough in half, flatten each half into a disk, and wrap each disk in plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.<\/p>\n On the edge of your seat? Tomorrow I’ll post the pumpkin filling part of the recipe. I’m heading to the polls at 6am so I must skedaddle off to bed. Happy voting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t make pie very often, because I don’t often feel like dealing with homemade pie crust and I haven’t come across a store-bought crust that I thought was worth it. This might be the pie crust recipe that changes everything. Oy, like I really need to be baking pie on a regular basis. Easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmakes 2 crusts
\n2 1\/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
\n1 1\/2 teaspoons sugar
\n3\/4 teaspoon salt
\n1\/2 cup chilled butter, cut into small cubes
\n1\/2 cup frozen solid vegetable shortening, cut into 1\/2-inch cubes
\n(I like Spectrum Organic Shortening<\/a>)
\n6 tablespoons ice water<\/p>\n