My mom made the most wonderful pastry crust using basic materials and rolling the dough. She used a product that you rarely see these days - Crisco - which was animal fat. But not too often. We rarely purchased berries to make pie. Instead, when children, we'd roam an old apple orchard which also has some long forgotten black berry and strawberry patches. Compared to the berries you see at market today, these were tiny. We were usually able to pick enough to make one good pie.
