Pour the flour into a ceramic bowl. If you are doing a sweet pie add the sugar and whisk.

Next you are going to take your sticks of butter, cut them into cubes and put them directly into the bowl of flour.

Now you are going to take your dough blender or hands... and start blending the dough until you get some chunks that are pea sized.

The dough should look choppy and not exactly together. [See Article for Reference].

Now you will add 3 Tbsp's at a time of the cold water and mix. You will see that it slowly starts to come together.

As you can see above, once all the water goes in it is in big chunks and actually coming together. There should be no powdery flour at the bottom of the bowl.

Then you are going to flour your shaping surface.

Pour your dough onto your lightly floured surface and push it all together to form a ball.

Then you will split your dough in 2 with a knife or scraper. Set one dough ball aside and work the other one.

You and going to press it together with your hands and slightly roll it to smash it down and together a bit more.

Your dough should now be in a sphere and well done together. Then wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for 2 hours before shaping.

After the crust has chilled, lightly flour your work surface and start rolling out your butter pie crust.

Your butter pie crust is ready to use!!