My goal for today is to mix together 5 pounds of flour, 3 pounds of Crisco, and some water and salt to produce 20 pie crusts. Yes, I know that sounds crazy. It's just that this is the only recipe for pie crust that has worked for me. And, it freezes beautifully. So, I can make 20 single crust pies or 10 double crust pies. I'm looking forward to making quite a few chicken pot pies, using some chicken I already own, some frozen mixed veggies I already own, and some chicken soup I'm about to acquire.
Later............
I ended up with 4 1-pound balls of dough and 8 1/2-pound balls. Enough for 16 crusts. Actually, everything might be a bit oversized since i should have come up with the equivalent of 20 crusts and instead I came up with only 16. That's okay. It's a long standing tradition in my family that leftover bits of dough turn into cinnamon rolls. It's a long time since I had any of those........
I will tell you that cutting 3 pounds of Crisco into 5 pounds of flour is some big job. Truthfully, if I weren't such a tightwad, I might have given up halfway through. But I wasn't about to waste all those ingredients. These days, that would be too expensive.
I hereby testify that the orthopedist who worked on my wrist two years and three weeks ago covered himself well when he told me it would take 1-3 years for it to stop being painful. It particularly rebels when I use it a lot. I defy you to mix up that amount of dough without aggravating that kind of injury.
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