Chocolate Pie Shell

Name: Chocolate Pie Shell
Yield: Makes 8" or 9" pie shell
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ½ tsp. salt; 1 c. sifted flour; ¼ tsp. vanilla; 3 tblsp. sugar; ⅓ c. vegetable shortening; 3 tblsp. cocoa; 3 to 4 tblsp. cold water

Preparation info

Makes
8
" or 9" pie shell

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1965

About

Ingredients

1 c. sifted flour
½ tsp. salt
3 tblsp.

Americas
United States
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Sift flour with salt, sugar and cocoa into bowl. Cut in shortening until particles of mixture resemble small peas in size. Blend in vanilla.
Sprinkle water over cocoa mixture, stirring lightly with fork, until dough is moist enough to hold together. Shape into ball.
Roll between two sheets of waxed paper to ⅛" thickness. Gently peel off top paper. Cut d