(This recipe makes dough for two 9-inch pie crusts. Can be made several days in advance and frozen.)
For instructions on how to use the dough to make a pie, see the pie recipes on the page for Low Sodium Desserts.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ⅔ cups shortening, chilled in the freezer for at least 30 minutes
- 5-6 Tbsp ice cold water.
- After you have chilled the shortening for at least 30 minutes, sift together the flour and salt.
- Using a pastry blender, cut in the frozen shortening until pieces are the size of small peas.
- Sprinkle 1 Tbsp of the ice cold water over part of the flour mixture. Toss gently with a fork, and push the moistened dough to the side of a bowl.
- Repeat, using 1 Tbsp of water at a time, until all of the dough is moistened. (You don’t want it to be wet, just moist. There will be some crumbly dough particles, not a solid mass.)
- Divide the dough in half. Form each half in a ball. Flatten the ball into a hockey puck shape, and then wrap it in plastic wrap. Freeze each of the plastic wrapped dough packages in the freezer for at least 20 minutes or up to 24 hours.
According to our estimates, one serving of a double-crust pie from this recipe will contain 36 mg of sodium. (A single-crust pie will contain only 18 mg sodium)
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. 36 mg of sodium per serving of a double-crust pie implies that this recipe provides:
– 2% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 2% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 4% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
