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Taken from Jeff Smith's Frugal Gourmet and amended.

https://www.cookingindex.com/recipes/35058/basic-easy-crust.htm

Basic Easy Crust


Recipe Ingredients
3 cups All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup lard, refrigerated
1 Egg
1 tablespoon White vinegar
3-4 tablespoons Ice water

In a medium-size bowl stir the flour and salt together. Cut in the shortenings using a pastry blender. Keep working the flour and shortenings until the mixture is rather grainy, like coarse cornmeal.

In a small bowl mix the egg and vinegar together and, using a wooden fork, stir the mixture into the flour. Add enough ice water so that the dough barely holds together.

Place on a marble pastry board or a plastic countertop and knead for just a few turns, enough so the dough holds together and becomes rollable. I roll my dough out on waxed paper. It is easy to handle that way.

If you have a marble rolling pin this will be easy. If you use a wooden one be sure to dust a teaspoon of flour on it a couple of times when you are rolling the dough.

Note: If you wish to use this recipe for a sweet pie simply stir in 1 tablespoon of sugar along with the flour and salt.