Grandma Hull’s Pie Crust

Grandma Hull’s pie crust is a tradition in our family. If you have a slice of pie made from this- you will understand why.

This recipe comes directly from a little notebook Grandma Hull carried with her when she was cooking in a nursing home in Washington.

Pie Crust

Ingredients: 2 cups flour, 1 cup shortening, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/3 cup sweet milk, 2 teasp. vinegar

2 teasp. vinegar added to milk.

Blend flour with (actually she used the medical symbol for “with”) shortening until resembling corn meal.

Add milk and vinegar little at a time.

Very good.

photo(5) — The notebook Grandma Hull (my great grandma) used for cooking in the nursing home.

Dienna Goscha

Living in Minnesota somewhere between creative idealism and practical reality. I've been married for 33 years to my college boyfriend, Don. We met in Oklahoma. Lived in Alabama and Georgia. Then landed in Minnesota. We have three sons and two daughters-in-law who are pretty cool. I was a math teacher. Then a stay at home mom. Now a pastor. Yeah, that. I speak. Write. Do stuff like that. All pretty much wrapped around the fact that loving God and loving others is the foundation of all I try to do.