Flexi pie crust

This is my go-to recipe regardless of whether you're going sweet or savory. The base remains the same, it just depends on whether you add sugar for sweet or omit the sugar and add a pinch more salt, spices and herbs. What's really nice here is after few times through, you just have to remember the basic ingredients, and then lean it one way or the other.

A note - yes this recipe calls for lard or vegetable shortening or cream cheese. You can use any for a sweet or savory pie. What these ingredients do is add flexibility and flakiness to the crust. A few notes on these:

• Cream cheese will add just a hint of dairy flavor
• Vegetable shortening will add no flavor, but will add flakiness.
• If using lard, do not use shelf-stable grocery store lard. this will ruin the flavor. Use fresh rendered, clean lard from a good butcher. If you can't easily or cheaply access good lard, use vegetable shortening or cream cheese.