I come from a long line of pie bakers and at an early age I learned to love and appreciate pie..Later in life, when I realized that the DNA for making pies had not been passed on to me, I learned to love and appreciate pie bakers.
The Pie Revolution starts here with Kim's family recipe for pie crust and then I'm doing my part with a free printable Pie Recruiting Poster. We won't give up until we see the cupcakes waving a white flag! Let them eat Pie!
Pie Crust
2 cups flour
1 cup shortening
2 shakes of salt
1 Tblsp sugar
1/8 tsp cinnamon
****throw everything in a Tupperware container and shake
the hell out of it (sorry, but that's how professional bakers talk).
add just enough ice water to hold it all together. Stir gently until a
ball forms, pat it into a disc, wrap in plastic and chill for at least an
hour. This allows the gluten to relax (and the cook).
** Never roll out pie crust more than twice-preferably only once.
The gluten will get overworked, and more flour is added due
the rolling.
Free Printable Pie Poster
Just make a graham cracker crust! Use a mallot to crush the graham crackers. You will feel so much better after making a pie!
ReplyDeleteActually, I aspire to make light flaky crusts as well. I am going to try the one that uses vodka! Pioneer woman has recently had a contest for a pie workshop weekend at her cabin. I so wish that I would have won!
Mmmm...pie, cupcakes! You've awoken my sweet tooth :)
ReplyDeletePie is home. People always come home!
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ReplyDeleteMy DIL sent me that recipe...I'm no puritan but I don't ever have Vodka in the house. Tell the guy at the ABC store I'm buying this to make pie crusts (I can see the eyes rolling now!). lol
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That little mini pie looks amazing! I'll take pie over cupcakes any day.
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ReplyDeleteOkay! Here's a fork...our main weapon in the Pie Revolution!
That is BRILLIANT! I think I'll make it for my book club dessert--cute, small, individual (just like me!)
ReplyDeleteI love pie! Especially fruit ones-I can trick myself into believing I can indulge more because, after all, they are fruit!! I am a new follower. Here's my blog if you would like to do the same!
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I'm with you. Cupcakes are nice and it's time to move over for pie! Love this post!
ReplyDeleteI love pie, but I never mastered crust. My mom made an incredible pie crust that included egg and vinegar. I visited a terrific pie shop in Brooklyn last weekend, Four & Twenty Blackbirds. It is owned by two young sisters from Hecla, SD, who use their grandma's pie crust recipe, and develop sometimes non-traditional fillings. We had caramel apple pie and my son said it was the bet pie he ever ate.
ReplyDeleteThe little pie is making me drool right now!! I am not much of a baker, a cook, maybe, but not a baker!
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