Happy Pi Day!

In honour of Pi Day I had intended to bake pies all day. Pie for breakfast, pie for lunch, pie for dinner. However, due to Daylight Savings, errands to run, and let's face it, overall laziness, I only succeeded in baking a pie crust.

Just as well, because it was fun and I think it was a fitting tribute to pi.

Here's the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, chilled and diced
1/4 cup ice water

Directions:

In a large bowl, combine flour and salt.
Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Stir in water, a tablespoon at a time, until mixture forms a ball.
Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

Roll dough out to fit a 9 inch pie plate.
Place crust in pie plate.
Press the dough evenly into the bottom and sides of the pie plate.

N.B.- In order to ensure that I would get the butter small enough to work into the dough, but still make sure it was frozen, I froze the stick of butter, grated it into a bowl and then put that bowl back in the freezer until it was time to use it. It worked out rather well I'd say.

Also, as you can see below, I didn't use a pie plate, I used a cookie sheet, considering we only planned on eating the crust.





If I dare say so, I think it was delicious.