GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Pie Crust -- Quad-Cities Online Recipe Book
Search Recipes

Submit a recipe
 

Pies:

Pie Crust

Comment on this recipe

You must make a good crust to make a good pie. Easy to make pie crust using vegetable oil. Helpful hint: Spray bottom and sides of pie pan with PAM or Canola oil no stick cooking spray. This will prevent the pie crust from sticking to the pan.

Ingredients

2-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup and 1 tablespoon milk
3/4 cup oil (canola or corn or sunflower)

Instructions

Sift together in a bowl. Mix oil and cold milk with fork or wire whip. Oil and milk must be thoroughly mixed.) Pour oil/milk mixture over flour. Using a fork, mix until moistened. Divide dough into two. Roll 1/2 of dough between two sheets of waxed paper. Put in pie pan, flute edges and chill before baking. Yield: 2 9-inch pie shells.

Ronald F. Fischer
Orion


Local events heading








  Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.




(More History)