Judy Haffner wrote:
> How many prefer to make their own pie crust, and if so, do you have a
> perfect recipe, or method?
>
> It seems like a difficult thing to do for some, and no matter what
> they do, the crust is "tough", or just not worthy of the "Good
> Housekeeping Seal Of Approval."
> My one grandmother could bake awesome cakes, but her pies left a lot
> to be desired, because she never could master making a good flaky
> light crust, so would buy some kind of sticks in a box, but I never
> thought they were so great. I don't even know if you can buy a pie
> crust mix in a box anymore?
>
> When my hubby makes pie at his cabin, he likes the Pillsbury
> refrigerated crusts, but I find them too "lardy" tasting. The only
> crust I have discovered that was even close to home made was Marie
> Callender's frozen pie crusts, and if I'm going to make a single pie,
> and don't want the fuss and bother of messing the kitchen up for one
> crust, I will use that brand of frozen. Today I made a chocolate
> cream pie using a Marie Callender crust, and it's quite tasty.
>
> I learned to make crust from my mother, but even mine have never been
> quite as good as hers, but I do get compliments on them. My cousin
> once told me, I don't care about the filling, I just want to eat the
> crust! :-)
>
> So would your pie win a blue ribbon at a local fair?

I can bake anything but pie crust. Mine never came out well at all. Oddly
enough I had a roommate who could make excellent pie crust with no recipe
but she was otherwise a lousy cook. She normally made the same chicken dish
every week. Some recipe given to her by her boyfriend who was from
Pakistan. I tried it and didn't care for it. It was chicken on the bone
with rice and some sort of seasoning that he brought back from Pakistan.
One other time she made a pan of burritos or enchiladas or something from my
Betty Crocker cookbook. She was very worried about making them and measured
every single ingredient. Stuff like that I don't usually bother to measure.
Because I can eyeball it.

So although I don't make pies any more, if I did, I would buy the crust. I
did that when we first go this house. We had a ton of apples. I made
everything you could think of out of them. Our family are not big pie
eaters though. We prefer a crisp to a pie any day.