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Vintage Recipe for Pastry or Pie Crust

This recipe is located on the back of the card that holds the  Brown Sugar Pecan Pie recipe. Mom took the liberty of adding amounts for two pastry crusts in the recipe. I think that's an interesting add, because she shows here that she might have been under some stress while baking, although she learned to bake at an early age from her mother. The addition of those double amounts made it easier for her to avoid calculating on the fly, although she was pretty good with math. She handled the household budget during 60 years of my parents' marriage. What I find interesting is the second ingredient as will as the water sprinkle...take a look: