Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Family Pie-Crust (No. 2.) ✠

• 1 lb. flour.
• ¾ lb. butter.
• 1 teaspoonful soda.
• 2 teaspoonfuls cream-tartar.
• Ice-water to make into a stiff dough.

Chop half the butter into the flour until it looks like yellow sand (sift the soda and cream-tartar with the flour, passing it through the sieve twice to make sure it is well mixed); work with ice-water into stiff dough; roll into a thin sheet, baste with one-third the remaining butter, fold up closely into a long roll, flatten and re-roll, then baste again. Repeat this operation three times, until the butter is gone, when make out your crust.

This is an easy and sure receipt, and the paste very fine.