Title: Fully Baked Pastry Shell - Glorious Liqueurs
Categories: Makebooze
Yield: 1 Crust

1 1/2	c	Flour
3	tb	Sugar
1/8	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Unsalted butter, cut in
		Eight pieces and well
		Chilled
2	tb	Crisco, chilled
3	tb	Ice water

Combine flour, sugar sand salt in food processor. Pulse to blend. Add the butter and shortening. Pulse-chop until mixture resembles cornmeal, pulsing no more than 10 times. Drizzle water over, cover and pulse no more than 7 times until mixture comes together. Flatten into a disk, wrap and chill at least an hour.

Roll dough out to 12 inch circle. Fit shell into required size pan, chill for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 425F. Line pan with tin foil or parchment paper; fill with raw rice and/or beans to weight.

Bake until set, about 8 minutes. Remove rice and foil, bake another 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown.

New Country Fare: Glorious Liqueurs Edited by Mary Aurea Morris ISBN: 0-9627403-1-4 Formatted by Carolyn Shaw 3-96..

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