Mixing flour together with a cold, solid fat such as butter or shortening to make a pie crust is done by the method called what?

Cutting in is the method of using either a pastry cutter or fork to cut through butter, shortening, or lard, picking up small bits of flour and gradually coating every rice-sized morsel of fat with flour. The fat is chilled and the dough is mixed with a tool rather than your hands to prevent it from warming up as it is mixed. These tiny bits of fat create steam during baking and create the flaky texture we all love in a great pie crust.

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