Cornmeal Crust Dough

Ingredients

• 8 Tbsp apple cider chilled
• 0.8 cup butter cold cut into 1/2-inch pieces
• 2.3 cups flour all-purpose
• 0.8 teaspoon salt 
• 0.3 cup shortening chilled cut into 1/2-inch pieces
• 2 tablespoons sugar 
• 0.3 cup cornmeal plain yellow

Equipment

• bowl
• blender
• plastic wrap

Directions

1. Stir together first 4 ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Cut butter and shortening into flour mixture with a pastry blender until mixture resembles small peas. Mound mixture on 1 side of bowl.
3. Drizzle 1 Tbsp. apple cider along edge of mixture in bowl. Using a fork, gently toss a small amount of flour mixture into cider just until dry ingredients are moistened; move mixture to other side of bowl. Repeat procedure with remaining cider and flour mixture.
4. Gently gather dough into two flat disks. Wrap in plastic wrap, and chill 1 to 24 hours.