Old Fashioned Cherry Pie- Recipe

Made by Courtney and Meghana.

Check out a picture here: http://just2foodies.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-fashioned-cherry-pie.html

Ingredients:
Crust
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 vegetable shortening
4-8 tablespoons ice cold water
Filling
2 1/2 cups of pitted cherries
3/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup all- purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 pinch of salt
Equipment
8 inch pie pan
Electric hand mixer
Rolling pin
Cutting board

Directions:
To make dough:
1.  Blend flour and salt in mixing bowl.
2. Cut cubed chilled shortening into flour mixture using the electric hand mixer until mixture is crumbly.
3. Sprinkle 2-4 tablespoons of ice water over the flour mixture.
4. Mix the flour mixture gently.
5. Add more water by the tablespoon mixing until the dough holds together.
6. Divide dough into two sections, one section being larger than the other.
7. Flatten dough into 1/2 inch thick round disks.
8. Wrap in plastic wrap, refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
To make filling:
Mix sugar, flour, and salt. Toss the mixture with cherries until mixed well.
To assemble pie: 
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Roll out the larger disk of chilled dough on a floured surface with a rolling pin. Roll until the disk is 2 inches wider than the pie pan.
3. Put the rolled dough into pie pan and trim any edges off.
4. Put the filling into the pie pan.
5. To make the top layer, roll out the smaller disk of dough. Cut into 1 inch strips and layer the strips in a lattice pattern on top of the pie.
6. Bake pie for 40 minutes.