Amazingly Easy Pie Crusts

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup lard
• 1 cup unsalted butter or 1 cup margarine
• 5 tablespoons cold water

Recipe

• 1 cut the butter into cubes, and then toss the butter and lard into flour.
• 2 using your hands, crumble it up into a fine, pebbly, grainy sort of dough.
• 3 add water, enough to make soft dough.
• 4 form into a ball, and chill for about an hour.
• 5 when chilled, knead it a couple of times on a floured surface.
• 6 roll it out, and proceed to fill with your choice of pie fillings.