Ingredients
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- Fresh Peach Pie
- submitted by Erin
- 1 c. water
- 1 c. sugar
- 4 Tb cornstarch
- 2 Tb lemon juice
- ¼ c. butter
- 4–5 sliced peaches
Barefoot Contessa’s Pie Crust Recipe (This makes two 10-inch pie crusts.)
- 12 Tbs (1 1/2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Tbs sugar
- 1/3 cup very cold shortening
- 6–8 Tbs (about 1/2 cup) ice water
Instructions
- Combine water, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, and butter and cook until thickened. Cool. Add peaches and put in pre-cooked pie crust.
Pie Crust:
- Dice the butter and return it to the refrigerator while you prepare the flour mixture.
- Place the flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix.
- Add the butter and shortening.
- Pulse 8-12 times, until the butter is the size of peas. With the machine running, pour the ice water down the feed tube and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball.
- Dump out onto a floured board and roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Cut the dough in half. Roll each piece on a well-floured board into a circle, rolling for the center to the edge, turning and flouring the dough to make sure it doesn’t stick to the board. Fold the dough in half, place in a pie pan, and unfold to fit the pan. Repeat with the top crust.