Pie Crust

• 2 cups unbleached white flour
• ⅜ teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons

Combine the flour and the salt; then add the butter and shortening and work them into the flour using a wire pastry blender, 2 knives, or your fingers. Work until the fat is roughly dispersed throughout the flour.

Dribble in the water, lightly lifting the flour mixture with a fork as you do so; then gather the whole together in your hands and form it into a ball, working it as little as