On 2012-06-15, Judy Haffner > wrote:
>
> How many prefer to make their own pie crust, and if so, do you have a
> perfect recipe, or method?

We flogged this horse pretty thoroughly about a year and a half ago
when I posted I was gonna learn how to bake pies if it killed me.
Note how I'm still here. You can google for it I you wanna read the
entire thread. I made fresh blackberry and blueberry pies all that
Winter. I even pulled off a couple alternating lattice pies. The
best crust recipe I found (butter + shortening) came from our own Barb
Schaller (was there ever any doubt! :

http://tinyurl.com/6j9vprb

The best advice on pie crusts I found was he

http://www.joepastry.com/2009/on_rolling_dough/

I discovered the trick is letting the dough warm back to jes the right temp
for rolling. Not too cold or it splits and not too warm or it gets
greasy. That's nothing but plain ol' practice and experience, a skill
I've yet to master.

I'll go at it again, this coming Winter, when the oven doesn't heat up
our uncooled home so much. I'm also gonna get one of those pie
rolling rags like Barb has. She says they're marvelous and I'm not
one to discount her sage advice.

good luck
nb

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