HOW TO MAKE "PIE DOUGH"

The crispy and crusty shell make pie's taste nice and delicious.
Beside the shell we must choose the right filling which must match with the kind of shell.
There are 3 kind of pie's shell, salty dough, sugary dough and pastry dough.
Some of pies, such as cheese pies, lime pie, use crackers for making pie shell.
As we know salty dough usually fill with salty fillings and sugary dough fill with sugary fillings, but pastry dough can fill with salty filling or sugary filling.

Below is the important things to get delicious shell if we want to make shell from flour :

- Choose the low gluten flour or free gluten flour.
- Use the oil or margarine or butter 50% weight of flour
- Liquid such as water and egg less than 30% weight of flour
- Don't over mix.
- For sugary dough, the percentage of sugar less than 30% weight of flour.
- Some dough can added baking powder or baking soda 1 tea spoon per 500 grams flour.

(source: private experience)