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Crust


	Crust is the crisp outer layer of a food, such as bread, or the thin layer of pastry that serves as the shell and topping of a pie. Crusts can be made from a wide range of ingredients. The traditional pastry crust combines flour, fat and liquid. Cookie crumbs, graham cracker crumbs, ground nuts and biscuit dough are also used for crusts. Today pastry, cookie and graham cracker crusts can be purchased already made. In fact, ready-made crumb crusts and frozen unbaked pastry crusts are already formed in a foil pie pan eliminating all work for the consumer except baking. Sticks of pie crust dough and refrigerated prerolled pie crusts are also available in supermarkets. The term crust may also refer to the crisp, browned exterior of a baked, fried or roasted food.