No-Stress All-Butter Pastry Crust

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Pastry cook Stella Parks introduces this look successful her “Bravetart” cookbook thusly: “If you tin fold a napkin, you tin marque old-fashioned pastry crust – nary nutrient processor, nary pastry knife, nary vodka." Most important, she says, there's nary cracking oregon tearing.

If the somesthesia successful your room tin emergence supra 73 degrees, archetypal refrigerate the rolling pin and adust ingredients. If needed, chill down the enactment aboveground with a container of crystal cubes.

The dough needs to remainder successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 2 hours, oregon up to overnight. It tin beryllium frozen for up to 3 months; defrost overnight successful the refrigerator.

Ingredients

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Servings: 2 pie crusts oregon 1 treble crust for a 9-inch pie

1 3/4 cups positive 1 tablespoonful (8 ounces) flour, positive much for dusting
1 tablespoonful sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) acold unsalted butter, chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
1/2 cupful (4 ounces) acold water

Nutritional Facts

Per 1/8 crust

Calories
160
Fat
12 g
Saturated Fat
7 g
Carbohydrates
12 g
Sodium
90 mg
Cholesterol
30 mg
Protein
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts,” by Stella Parks (W.W. Norton, August, 2017).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published July 24, 2017

Updated March 16, 2026