Betty’s Best Homemade Pie Crust Recipe

In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make her Best Homemade Pie Crust. This is a step-by-step tutorial from the mixing of the dough to the fluting of the top edge. If you are having trouble making pie crusts, or if you just need a new recipe, try this–It’s wonderful! Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) 4 to 5 tablespoons ice-cold water In a large bowl, place 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour. Cut in 1/2 cup butter with a pastry blender. Keep working the mixture, until it is the consistency of cornmeal. Sprinkle 4 to 5 tablespoons of ice-cold water over the mixture,a little at a time, stirring after each addition. When the dough will form into a ball, stop adding water. Flatten the ball of dough on a lightly floured surface, br pressing with your hands. Roll from the center to the edge, until the dough will fit your pie plate (about 1/8-inch thick). Carefully transfer rolled dough from flat surface to your pie plate, keeping it centereed. Now, use kitchen scissors or shears to cut off excess dough from the top edge. Turn top edge under–one turn all the way around. Now flute the edge by repeatedly placing your index finger of one hand on the edge of the dough, and using your thumb and index finger of the other hand to crimp the dough. Repeat this process all around the edge for a beautiful pie crust. If you plan to bake the pie crust before filling, take a fork a prick the bottom and sides to let air out as it bakes. If baking immediately …

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bettyskitchen

@cupomash2 Thanks for your sweet comment!
–Betty
cupomash2

Thank-you for saving my life. I have to bake for my wife this week end and you have given me the confidence to do it. You make it look so easy and explain it so well. Please post more well done.
theATHEISTmind

Oh! Okay thanks and keep up the good work!
bettyskitchen

@theATHEISTmind You will need to put holes in the crust if you are baking the crust alone, and then filling it with something like chocolate pie filling. If you are actually baking your filling along with the crust, you do not want holes in the crust, because the filling will leak through to the bottom of the pie plate and stick.
–Betty
theATHEISTmind

Hi I’ve done a lot of your recipes you’ve seem to have one for everything I need,and there great!! But I have a question I’m going to make this crust for apple pie and you said put holes in the crust if I’m going to bake it right away. But in your apple pie filling you said make sure your crust does not have holes what do I do???
bettyskitchen

@ciwowo Yes, it is wonderful with chicken pot pie–perfect!
–Betty
ciwowo

is this pie crust suitable for chicken pot pie?
ashleybunify

@bettyskitchen Thank you Betty. I am fascinated by some of the American holiday traditions. My husband & I are hoping to visit soon but will definitely have a pumpkin pie this Halloween
bettyskitchen

@ashleybunify Yes, you can make the crust the night before. You still need to make holes in it with a fork, either the night before or the next day, if you are baking it unfilled. If it is baked with the filling it it, you don’t need to use the fork on it.
–Betty
ashleybunify

Can I make the crust the night before? If so how can I keep it. Would I still need to use the fork the next day? Your videos and recipes are really great, thank you for sharing them.
bettyskitchen

@AquaClarisse I can easily find them at my local grocery store, Kroger. If you can’t find the crumbs, put graham crackers in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin until they are very fine.
–Betty
AquaClarisse

i always keep trying, i’m only eleven but if i keep trying i guess i can be a great cook when i grow up can you please tell me where to buy the pre-crumbed graham? thanks
Saintpistolwhip

Best tutorial EVER!! Epic! Thank you.
N01girlN01girl

betty can you tell me what size pie dish you are using?
wheresmylife

You gave a great tip here, Betty. To go on from the mixture being pea-sized to being more like cornmeal. Too many recipes say to stop when it’s pea-sized, which makes for difficult rolling.

I love making pies. (Oddly, I don’t like eating them. I just give them away!) Your video and style is one of the most sensible ones I’ve seen in years. You don’t rush the process, which many people try to do in their videos. Sometimes, good food just takes time and patience. Great job, Miss Betty!
bettyskitchen

@Stillyoungat49 Yes, oil will be fine!
–Betty
Stillyoungat49

You make this look so easy, but my pie crusts never come out right, either too crumbly, too heavy,or dry, too something, but for sure not right. If I don’t have butter, can oil be used ?
fakidomita

Can you tell me please how can make it with apples?for example i put only apples or and sth else?you know apple pie
bettyskitchen

@uzbaha123456 You are welcome! I hope you enjoy the recipe!
–Betty
uzbaha123456

hey betty thanks for such a nice recipe love it.
bettyskitchen

I hope your apple pie turned out great! I am proud of you for undertaking such a complicated task!
–Betty
littlemisssunshin456

hi betty i am 10 yrs and i love your video’s there so awsome and i am going to make a pie with your pie crust recipe it is a friday and i can’t go to school because i have a filed trip but noone gave me the form so i stayed home and i was going to do a suprise for my mom, my sister, my older brother,and my younger brother,and my uncle and i am going to make apple pie so thanks soooooooooooooooooooooo much
bettyskitchen

You are very welcome for the videos! I appreciate your comment!
–Betty
bettyskitchen

You can freeze them the same.
–Betty
bettyskitchen

Yes, you can freeze your leftover pie crust for later. Just thaw them as use as is they were freshly made!
–Betty

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