How to Make Pie Pastry Dough Video. Making a pie crust from scratch is easy and costs just pennies. In this video, youll learn how to make perfect, flaky pie crusts every time. Follow this simple step by step recipe for making pie pastry dough with your food processor. First, youll mix the dry ingredients together in a food processor. This recipe includes well chilled butter and shortening pulsed in the food processor until crumbly. Temperature. Well show you what to look for that reveals when the dry and wet ingredients are properly mixed together. Then youll see how to prepare your rolling surface, plus a neat trick for using your rolling pin to transfer the rolled out pie crust onto the pie pan. Youll be surprised how easy it is to make a homemade pie crust. Adapted slightly from Vickis Vegan Kitchen Square One 2011. This is a super tender, but easy to work with pastry dough that can be modified for savoury tarts by. PastryDough12-thumb-596x350-290811.jpg' alt='Pastry Dough' title='Pastry Dough' />Making a pie crust from scratch is easy and costs just pennies. In this video, youll learn how to make perfect, flaky pie crusts every time. Shortcrust pastry, sometimes called short dough or just pastry dough, is a light, sweet, crumbly dough thats perfect for making small tarts and pies.