Pie Fetish



I've been a cook for a long time, but I've never been a baker. I've decided to learn to make pies as my baking debut.

There are several books I am finding helpful. The library helped me with a couple of books, including The perfect pie: more than 125 all-time favorite pies and tarts , by Susan G. Purdy.


It was a good starting place for crusts and fillings, but now I have joined every other pie maker in the world in the search for an even better crust. This led me to Pie : 300 tried-and-true recipes for delicious homemade pie , by Ken Haedrich.

This is such an excellent reference book that my copy now resides in my kitchen, and a batch of Flaky Pie Pastry (page 31) is now chilling in my fridge for today's project.

The one tome that has led me astray so far is the Cooks Illustrated special edition for the holidays, which included a recipe for pecan pie. My clue should have been when the author went on at length about her efforts to devise a pecan pie recipe which wasn't too sweet. After making the pie to her specifications, I found that she had succeeded in reducing the sweetness beyond her wildest expectations. It was the first time in my life I've had pecan pie which was not sweet enough. I expect that Tea Time At The Masters will have a pecan pie recipe more to my liking

Posted: Sun - December 30, 2007 at 02:21 PM        

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