Pie Dough…recipe has been passed down through the years.

Pie Dough Recipe

 

3 Cups flour  plus 2 Tbsp

1 tsp salt

1 ½ cups shortening

1 egg

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

½ cup cold water

 

Combine flour and salt.  Cut in shortening until pieces are the size of small peas.  In another bowl, beat egg, then add vinegar and water.  Sprinkle over above mixture with fork until dough holds together.  Shape into 3 balls and divide each roll to 1/8” thick.  Line pie pans.  Fill the various fruit fillings and top with crusts.

 

Yield 3 – 2part crust pies or 6 piecrusts

Sunflower Splash

Work in Progress. Sunflower Splash as
Painted by Pauline Harris 2012

The Keeper of the Plains, as photographed by Pauline Harris

In Wichita, Kansas; there are two rivers which connect. The Keeper of the Plains watches over them and all who tread nearby.