Grandma Rabe's Pie Crust

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2/3 cup crisco
• 4 TBS cold water

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Mix flour and salt in a medium bowl. Cut in crisco until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle water (make sure the water is very cold) evenly over dough one TBS at a time, mixing with fork and then with hands, making dough into a ball.
• Divide dough in half. Roll first half out into a thin circle. Fold gently in half and move into pie plate. To repair tears, pat cold water onto the dough and piece together. Cut off excess dough.
• Add filling. Roll out second half of dough, adding the scraps from the first half. Add cold water around the edges of the bottom half of the dough. Place top half of dough on pie and pinch edges together. Cut slits in the top crust.
• Bake pie for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 375 degrees and continue baking pie for 40-45 minutes.