Basic Pie Crust

Ingredients

3 cups all purpose flour

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoons salt

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (2¼ sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes

8 tablespoons ice water

1½ teaspoons apple cider vinegar

Stir flour, sugar, and salt in medium sized bowl. Add butter; cut with pastry cutter until it resembles a fine meal or pea sized. Add 8 tablespoons ice water and cider vinegar; stir with a wooden spoon until moist clumps form, adding more ice water by teaspoonful if dough is dry. Gather dough together. Turn dough out onto work surface; divide dough in half. Form each half into ball and flatten into disk. Wrap disks separately in plastic; refrigerate at least 1 hour.

Makes two 9 inch pie crusts.