Whole Wheat Pie Crust
I like making pies, including tofu quiche and fruit pie and pumpkin pie . Good pie crust is hard to make, though. I buy Wholly Wholesome rolled pie dough when we can find it. But it's been hard to find nowadays. Cousin Ann Mattson and friend Allen shared their (similar) oil-based pie crust recipes, which were tasty. Then I found this easy vegan pie crust recipe and found that using a food processor in cutting in the butter seemed to yield an easier dough to roll. Update: Allen Moench's oil-based pie crust is to die for. Pat shared his recipe with me, and one of the secrets was mixing orange zest into the dough. And he used all white flour; that makes it easier. Ingredients (Makes two 9" crusts) 1 1/4 C white flour 1 1/4 C whole wheat flour (or : 2.5 C white flour) 1 tsp salt 2 tsp sugar 1-2 T orange zest (optional but excellent) Butter crust: 1 C vegan butter, cold, cubed 8 T ice water OR Oil crust (Allen's): 2...