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Place your pie in the oven for 30 minutes.
Fill the dish with your chosen filling.
Preheat the oven at 200ºC/ Gas Mark 6.
With your fingertips, rub the fat into the flour until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.
Add the sugar (if sweet). Slowly add the water and mix to form a dough.
Roll out the rest of the pastry and decorate the top of the pie.
Sift the flour and salt (if savoury) into a bowl.
Add the margarine and cut it into small cubes.
With the rolling pin, drape the pastry over the dish.
Press the crumbs into a ball. Wrap and chill for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven, grease the dish and prepare your chosen filling.
Flour a surface. Roll out 2/3 of the dough for the bottom of the dish.
Knead lightly until it is smooth.