Place flour, ginger, 2 teaspoons sugar and 3/4 teaspoons salt in a food processor. Cover and process with pulses until combined. Then add butter pieces. Cover and pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. With the machine running, add the ice water in a slow, steady stream. Process about 15 seconds or until begins to clump together, but is still a bit crumbly.

Gather flour mixture into a ball, kneading gently until it holds together. Wrap pastry in plastic wrap and chill for an hour. Use you hands to slightly flatten pastry between 2 pieces of waxed paper. Roll pastry from center to edges into a circle about 13″ in diameter. Remove waxed paper and wrap pastry around rolling pin. Unroll into a 9″ springform pan that has a removable bottom. Ease pastry into pan without stretching it. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of the pan. Chill for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line pastry with a double thickness of aluminum foil. Bake for 10 minutes. Then remove foil and bake about 15 minutes more or until golden. Cool on a wire rack.