can you freeze homemade pies?
 

I've got to make key lime pie and sweet potato pie for a gathering on
saturday. I was going to make two of each and take half to another
gathering at my chruch on sunday, only they changed it to a cook-out
and told us to bring salads and burgers instead! Only I'd already
bought the ingredients... I also wanted to make some pie for my
husband and me to enjoy, but we won't eat two whole pies by ourselves
before they spoil! Could I make the extras and freeze half for later?
I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
grind up cracker crumbs...

~Karen aka Kajikit
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Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:

> I've got to make key lime pie and sweet potato pie for a gathering on
> saturday.

The first time I read that, I thought "Key Lime And Sweet Potato Pie"
(One pie.) Yuck.

I was going to make two of each and take half to another
> gathering at my chruch on sunday, only they changed it to a cook-out
> and told us to bring salads and burgers instead! Only I'd already
> bought the ingredients... I also wanted to make some pie for my
> husband and me to enjoy, but we won't eat two whole pies by ourselves
> before they spoil! Could I make the extras and freeze half for later?
> I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
> grind up cracker crumbs...

The Key Lime Pie will freeze just fine -- it's often served frozen. I
don't know about pumpkin; I think it will freeze, but I would freeze the
lime pie and eat the pumpkin pie fresh.

You can grind cracker crumbs with a plastic bag and a rolling pin or a
beer bottle. That's how I usually grind them rather than dirtying the
food processor.

Best regards,
Bob

Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> I've got to make key lime pie and sweet potato pie for a gathering on
> saturday. I was going to make two of each and take half to another
> gathering at my chruch on sunday, only they changed it to a cook-out
> and told us to bring salads and burgers instead! Only I'd already
> bought the ingredients... I also wanted to make some pie for my
> husband and me to enjoy, but we won't eat two whole pies by ourselves
> before they spoil! Could I make the extras and freeze half for later?
> I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
> grind up cracker crumbs...
>
> ~Karen aka Kajikit

Pumpkin pie will freeze very nicely - cool it thoroughly; wrap it
tightly (I like Press 'n Seal and now it comes in "freezer" type) - put
it in a Ziploc and freeze it. When you thaw it, do not unwrap it until
it is totally thawed. It's best to thaw in the refrigerator.

N.

In article >, Karen AKA
Kajikit > wrote:

> I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
> grind up cracker crumbs...

Put the graham crackers in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling
pin. That is one time-honored way. Or you can buy ready-made graham
cracker crumbs. Key Lime requires a crumb crust, AFAIK -- not a pastry
crust. FWIW.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sweet Potato Follies added 2/24/05.
"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.

On Thu 10 Mar 2005 11:25:39p, -- wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >, Karen AKA
>> Kajikit > wrote:
>>
>> > I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
>> > grind up cracker crumbs...
>>
>> Put the graham crackers in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling
>> pin. That is one time-honored way. Or you can buy ready-made graham
>> cracker crumbs. Key Lime requires a crumb crust, AFAIK -- not a pastry
>> crust. FWIW.
>
> well, FWIW, my very old no-bake key lime pie recipes (the acid sets the
> -now pasteurized - yolks) all use pastry crusts.
> And it tastes odd to me to eat one with graham crackers after having
> real
> keys limes pie with pastry crust - graham kind of messes with the rich
> background flavor, IMHO.
>
> But some like it with graham, and some like it with pastry.
>
> whatever works.......

I definitely prefer it with a pastry crust. A cheese pie / cheesecake
where I really prefer a graham cracker crust.

--
Wayne Boatwright
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, Karen AKA
> Kajikit > wrote:
>
> > I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
> > grind up cracker crumbs...
>
> Put the graham crackers in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling
> pin. That is one time-honored way. Or you can buy ready-made graham
> cracker crumbs. Key Lime requires a crumb crust, AFAIK -- not a pastry
> crust. FWIW.

well, FWIW, my very old no-bake key lime pie recipes (the acid sets the -now
pasteurized - yolks) all use pastry crusts.
And it tastes odd to me to eat one with graham crackers after having real
keys limes pie with pastry crust - graham kind of messes with the rich
background flavor, IMHO.

But some like it with graham, and some like it with pastry.

whatever works.......
> --
> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sweet Potato Follies added 2/24/05.
> "I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
> say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
> performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.

In article >, "--"
> wrote:

> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >, Karen AKA
> > Kajikit > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using a homemade pastry crust because I don't have any way to
> > > grind up cracker crumbs...
> >
> > Put the graham crackers in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling
> > pin. That is one time-honored way. Or you can buy ready-made graham
> > cracker crumbs. Key Lime requires a crumb crust, AFAIK -- not a pastry
> > crust. FWIW.
>
> well, FWIW, my very old no-bake key lime pie recipes (the acid sets
> the -now pasteurized - yolks) all use pastry crusts.
> And it tastes odd to me to eat one with graham crackers after
> having real keys limes pie with pastry crust - graham kind of
> messes with the rich background flavor, IMHO.

> But some like it with graham, and some like it with pastry.
>
> whatever works.......

Ezzackly. I don't care much for Key Lime Pie.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sweet Potato Follies added 2/24/05.
"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.