Thanksgiving · gluten free

Gluten-free all-butter pie crust

One crust for every pie on the planner: pumpkin, sweet potato, pecan and apple (double it for apple). An egg and a splash of vinegar give gluten-free flour the hold it's missing, and rolling between parchment stops the tearing.

Gluten freeServes 81 hr 15 min, including chilling

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You need

1 1/4 cups (175 g) gluten-free 1:1 baking flour, one with xanthan gum in it, plus more for patching
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp kosher salt
8 tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, very cold, cubed
1 egg
1 tsp cider vinegar
2 to 3 tbsp ice water

Make it

1. Rub in the butter

Whisk the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Rub in the cold butter with your fingertips until the biggest pieces are the size of peas.

2. Bring it together

Beat the egg with the vinegar and 2 tbsp ice water. Pour it over and toss with a fork until the dough holds when you squeeze it, adding the last tbsp of water only if it's crumbly. Press into a flat disk, wrap and chill 30 minutes.

3. Roll

Roll the dough between two sheets of parchment to a 12-inch round. Peel off the top sheet, flip the dough into a 9-inch pie plate and peel off the second sheet. It will crack in places: press the cracks closed with your fingers and patch any gaps with scraps. Crimp the edge and freeze 15 minutes.

4. Blind bake (pumpkin, sweet potato and pecan pies)

Line the crust with foil, fill with dried beans and bake at 400°F for 20 minutes. Lift out the foil and beans and bake 5 to 8 minutes more, until the bottom looks dry. Then fill and bake the pie as its own recipe says.

5. Apple pie

Make two crusts. Line the plate with one (no blind bake), fill it, and cut the second into strips for a lattice: a whole gluten-free top crust tends to crack as the apples settle.

Good to know

Gluten-free crusts brown faster at the edge. If the rim is dark before the filling sets, cover it with a ring of foil.
The fillings on the planner are already gluten free. Only the crust changes.

Use it for: Pumpkin pie, Bourbon pecan pie, Double-crust apple pie, Sweet potato pie.

The other two

Gluten-free make-ahead gravy Gluten-free sage stuffing Every dish, marked

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