Recipe: Pie Crust (2 regular, 1 gluten-free)

Here's a couple of recipes for pie crust dough:

Recipe 1 - Ingredients:
4 cups flour
1 cup warmed reconstituted powdered goat, soy, rice or cow milk
3/4 cup oil
1 tsp salt

Directions - Mix ingredients together. Roll as desired. // HEART-HEALTHY. Can be LACTOSE-FREE.


Recipe 2 - Ingredients:
2/3 cup of light olive oil
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp of apple-cider vinegar
1/2 cup ice water

Directions - Measure the olive oil and freeze until like thick honey (approx 3 hours - depends on your freezer). Mix flour, salt and baking powder. Add rest of ingredients and mix (with hands if necessary) until ball of dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled (an hour or two). Remove, unwrap and roll out for one 9" crust. If too difficult to roll, press into pie plate with fingers or back of spoon. // HEART-HEALTHY, LACTOSE-FREE


Recipe 3 - Ingredients:
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups rice flour
4 tbsp cold water

Directions - Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix shortening into flour until crumby-texture. Add water. Mix with hands until soft, and form into a ball. Press into 8-inch pie pan, using fingers or back of spoon. // HEART-HEALTHY, GLUTEN-FREE, LACTOSE-FREE

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