2 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup crisco, cold
12 tablespoons butter, cold and cubed
1/4-1/2 cup ice water

in a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, salt and sugar. add the crisco and break it up with your hands as you start to coat it with flour.

add the cold butter cubes and work them into the flour with your hands or a pastry cutter. work quickly so the butter doesn’t get too warm, until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

add the ice water, a little at a time, until the mixture comes together forming a dough. bring the dough together into a ball.

when the dough comes together, stop working it otherwise it will get overworked and tough. divide the dough in half and flatten it slightly to form a disk. wrap each disk in plastic and chill for about 30 minutes,