Itsy-bitsy hand pies are appropriate the fair quantity of sugar sweetness for a delicate-weight, after-dinner treat.
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- 1 1/4 c. all-just flour
- 4 tbsp. cool unsalted butter, decrease into cubes
- 3 tbsp. cool vegetable shortening (Crisco), decrease into cubes
- 5 tbsp. ice water
- 4 smartly-behaved strawberries, rinsed, green tops removed, and halved
- 4 tsp. granulated sugar, plus more for ending
- 1 egg, beaten with 1 teaspoon water for egg wash
Directions
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- Step 1In a smartly-behaved mixing bowl, mix flour, butter, and shortening, working the fleshy into the flour with your fingers, a pastry cutter, or a fork except the mixture begins to clump collectively and feel savor moist sand.
- Step 2Add ice water, one tablespoon at a time, and incorporate with a fork, the usage of simply ample liquid so that the mixture holds collectively. Press dough right into a ball, duvet with plastic wrap, and refrigerate at the very least Half-hour sooner than continuing to the following step.
- Step 3Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sprinkle flour onto work surface and roll out dough. Reduce into 3-run circles, ensuring to decrease an very supreme number and dispute half of apart to top the pies.
- Step 4Location bottom crust circles on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush egg wash round edges of bottom crust, location one strawberry half of, decrease aspect down, onto every bottom crust. Sprinkle every berry portion with 1/2 teaspoon sugar, top with 2nd crust, and press crust edges along with a fork to seal. Brush top crusts with egg wash and sprinkle with more sugar, if desired. Bake 15-20 minutes, or except crust is golden brown.
Lauren Haslett
Location of birth: Novi, Michigan
7-2nd life yarn: I’m a Midwestern transplant who learned my ardour for food later on in life, nonetheless am now fully, madly hooked in to pork, chocolate, booze, and most ceaselessly the entirety appetizing that you just’re now not alleged to love. Regardless of how loopy issues get, baking calms me down once I’m burdened out and makes me feel that every is solely with the enviornment.
3 issues I make better than anyone else: Pie crust, pizza (from scratch), mac and cheese (my fave version has bacon, pumpkin, and narrative in it)
Recipe I’m on the everlasting hunt for: The right handmade caramels (I’ve attempted so many loads of recipes, nonetheless the feel is by no plot precisely what I want or now not it is)
Kitchen plot I appropriate cannot get fair: Not burning myself – by hook or by crook I repeatedly appear to wind up injuring myself on a hot pot or hot myself on the oven door, and I’ve received the scars to point out it.
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