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Best ingredient for a tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture: shortening or lard. As mentioned, both shortening and lard contain more fat than butter, which is composed of about 80% fat and 20% water ...
This recipe uses a mix of butter and lard, which hits a sweet spot between flavor and flakiness. Butter has a recognizable and desirable flavor for a pie crust, but can be difficult to work into ...
I first divided the pie crusts into two categories: the ones that baked at 400° for about 15 minutes and the ones that baked at 450° for 15 minutes (there was also a rouge pie crust that baked ...
Pie crimper from the 1800s Closeup of peekaboo lattice. A pie crust edge is often crimped to provide visual interest, and in the case of a two-crust pie in order to seal the top and bottom crusts together to prevent the filling from leaking. [6] [7] Crimping can be done by hand, pinching the two crusts together to create a ruffled edge, or with ...
Apple crisp (or apple crumble, in the US) is a dessert made with a streusel topping. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, and cinnamon. The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924. Other similar desserts include apple Brown Betty, apple cobbler, apple crumble, apple pan dowdy, apple pie, and Eve's ...
The difference between crumb and crust. Close up of the crust. Pie crust. In baking, a crust is the outer, hard skin of bread or the shell of a pie. Generally, it is made up of at least shortening or another fat, water, flour, and salt. [1] It may also include milk, sugar, or other ingredients that contribute to the taste or texture.
Fold both crusts up over the edge of the pie and pinch to seal. Cut four 3-inch-wide strips of foil and cover the edges of the pie. Cut a 8-inch piece of foil and loosely tent the top of the pie.
A single-crust pie with a filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, and cream, with brown sugar or maple syrup. Sugar pie: Northern France and Belgium: Sweet Either a leavened dough topped with sugar, or a pie crust filled with a sugar mixture (similar to a treacle tart). Also popular in French Canada. Sweet potato pie [19] United States