Bette Hagmans Four Flour Pastry Gluten Free Pie Crust Recipes

GLUTEN-FREE PIE DOUGH

Steps:

• In a food processor, pulse flour and salt until combined. Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles fine meal, with no large pieces of butter remaining. Add egg and 2 tablespoons ice water, then pulse until well combined and dough holds together when squeezed, 1 minute. If necessary, add up to 2 tablespoons more ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time.

PERFECT GLUTEN FREE PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Spray 9 inch pie pan with cooking spray. Generously dust with flour.
• Mix flours, sugar, xanthan gum, and salt in large bowl of an electric mixer. Cut butter into 6 piece and add to mix until crumbly and resembling coarse meal.
• Add egg and orange juice. Mix on low speed until dough holds together; it should not be sticky. Form dough into ball, using your hands, and place on a sheet of wax paper. Top with a second sheet of wax paper and flatten dough to 1 inch thickness. (Dough can be frozen at this point for up to one month, wrap in plastic wrap and then foil).
• Roll out dough between the 2 sheets of wax paper. If the dough seems tacky, refrigerate for 15 minutes before proceeding. Remove top sheet of wax paper and invert dough into pie pan. Remove remaining sheet of wax paper , and crimp edges for single crust pie. (Dough can also be frozen at this point for up to one month; kine pie shell with wax paper, wrap in plastic wrap, then foil.
• To Prebake a bottom crust: Preheat oven to 375°F Gently prick pastry in 3 or 4 places with a fork. Bake for about 25 minutes or until golden and cool completely on wire rack.
• To partially bake a bottom crust: Preheat oven to 375°F Bake pastry for 10 minutes, remove from oven. Fill and bake as per recipe.

GLUTEN-FREE PIE/TART PASTRY

Steps:

• Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl; stir.
• Stir oil, applesauce, and milk together; add to dry mixture.
• Mix until it forms a ball; roll between 2 sheets of waxed paper or press into a greased 9" pie plate.
• Prick with a fork and bake in a preheated 400* oven for 10-15 minutes for a baked pie shell.
• Fill before baking if the recipe calls for an unbaked pie shell.
• Enjoy!

GLUTEN FREE PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Stir dry ingredients together, making sure xanthan gum is evenly distributed.
• Cut in butter or oil and add honey.
• Add cold water a little at a time until a ball is formed.
• Roll dough to 1/8" thickness between two sheets of aluminum foil.
• Peel top sheet of foil off, and invert dough onto a 9" pie pan.
• Peel off other foil sheet.
• Prick dough with fork, and bake at 350 for 15 minutes until brown.