Pastry Crust

Preheat oven to 425. In medium bowl, stir flour & salt. With pastry blender or 2 knives used scissor fashion, cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle 2-3 Tbs. cold water, 1 Tb. at a time, into mixture, mixing lightly with a fork after each addition, until pastry is just moist enough to hold together. Press pastry onto bottom & up side of a pie plate. With fork, prick bottom of crust in many places. Bake pie shell 15 minutes or until golden. Cool on wire rack. When cold, add cool or cold pie filling. Makes 1 pie crust.