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My mom's tip about mixing butter and shortening changed how I approach pie crusts
She told me last weekend that using all butter makes the crust taste better but all shortening makes it flakier so now I do half and half and it hit different because I stopped getting tough edges after 6 years of thinking I was doing something wrong.
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casey_lane731mo ago
lol "hit different" is exactly right because the first time I tried a 50/50 mix my crust went from "yeah that's fine I guess" to "wait did I accidentally become a pastry chef overnight." The tough edges thing killed me for years too. Turns out I was just out here overworking all-butter dough like it was pizza dough at 2am. Now I butter my shortening mix and nobody can stop me.
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robinson.leo1mo ago
Overworking all-butter dough like pizza dough at 2am" is literally me before I found 50/50. I was a total butter snob and thought shortening was cheating, but now I get it.
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