You can smear, snap, or crumble the butter in—my favorite method is to pinch the butter into the flour until evenly distributed in pieces. Don't Handle Dough For Too Long If you handle the pie dough ...
Chef Bec doesn't blind-bake the pie crust. She also used four kinds of milk for a creamier filling, and pastry flour for a flakier crust (but you can easily substitute all-purpose flour).
Chef Bec doesn’t blind-bake the pie crust. She also used four kinds of milk for a creamier filling, and pastry flour for a flakier crust. Prepare crust: Dissolve salt and sugar in the milk.
I chose three similar crust products from the freezer section. Each came in an oven-safe disposable pan, and I used the same premade pie filling for all three. The crusts had pretty similar prep ...