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Buckwheat Pie Crust

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Prep Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 2 Crusts
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups spelt flour
  • ½ cup buckwheat flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 250 grams frozen butter *see note
  • 1 tablespoon rendered pork fat lard
  • 9 tablespoons ice cold water

Method
 

  1. Add spelt, buckwheat, and salt into a large bowl and whisk with a fork until mixed.
  2. Take butter out of the freezer and grate it. Cut butter into the flour with a fork or a pastry cutter until everything is very fine and incorporated (see 1st video above).
  3. Cut in rendered pork fat.
  4. Add water all at once and mix until it forms a dough.
  5. Separate dough into two balls.
  6. Flour balls and set on plastic wrap or inside a ziplock bag.
  7. Roll out to 8 inch disks.
  8. Place in fridge for about ½ hour.
  9. Remove from fridge, let rest for a couple of minutes, and continue rolling on a floured surface until it is the size of your dish.
  10. Place in pie dish, trim excess, tuck edge underneath, and decorate the edge with your fingers or a fork.

Notes

In Slovenia, butter comes in 250 gram blocks. Your best bet is to weigh it, but if you don't have a scale, a quick google search shows it's about 2 sticks butter + 1 and ¾ tablespoons in the states.

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