Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie | Ken Haedrich

Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie | Ken Haedrich | Great Pies

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	Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie Ken Haedrich Harvard Common Press, 2004 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

excellent!

Very well written, has just about any pie recipe you could be looking for and then some. He has a huge selection of just crust recipes alone, plus numerous ways to make them (i.e. by hand, food processor, electric mixer.) Just for the crust recipes alone this book is worth having, in my opinion.

His directions are clear and and easy to follow. This book is a good choice for both the beginner or experienced baker. He discusses various types of pie pans, when to choose a particular type of crust, etc. Which as any experienced baker knows, these things make a huge difference in the quality of the finished product.

At first glance this book was mind boggling in the number of recipes to choose from. After perusing the book I chose a few to make for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they turned out well.

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Great Pies

I have tried three pies from this book, and they are truly the best that I've ever had...my wife cannot stop backing them. The directions are very well spelled out and the result is amazing. Pies for any occasion and all of them so far have been great.

Great for chefs with any amount of experience

This book is incredibly articulate and well thought out - it is easy to navigate and even easier to follow the recipes. It explains why it is necessary to do things a certain way and what to look for during the mxing/baking process to ensure your pie will have the right texture. It also leaves room for creativity and improvisation for bakers with more experience, as it diagrams the art of pie-making by carefully explaining the basics and showing you when and where digression from the recipe would be optimal.

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Stains in the library's copy

My husband got this out of the library for me, knowing I like to cook. It's been renewed once and I'm buying a copy so I won't have to pay fines on it before I make all the ones that piqued my interest.

I started with the Shaker Lemon pie, made with sliced lemons. Easy instructions for a delicious, but chewy, pie. Then I made a blueberry pie, which my husband brought in to work to repay someone for a ride home. Someone else asked if he needed another ride anywhere!

A friend came over and we made three pies in an afternoon. One more blueberry (so I could try it) and two apple pies. I couldn't help but try the oddball apple pies, so I can say the one with the ketchup in it and the one with the Cheez-it crumb topping are quite good. It's apple picking season; who knows how many of the apple pie recipes I'll try! Next up: watermelon rind pie, then green tomato pie, for which there are at least two different recipes.

My only complaint is with the index. Why have a category labeled "pie?" It runs on forever and just confused me. And many of the sidebars (Recipes for Success) are not listed.

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Mmmmm

This is an incredibly great book. I'm not just saying that because I love pie, either. The crust is always the trickiest part of pie-making for me, but this book has instructions and recipes that seem foolproof and so easy! Easily the best crust I've ever made. The only caveat I would add is that some information -- such as info on apples or how to roll out dough -- is almost randomly distributed throughout the book. When it's needed the page number is given, but I like my books to be a little more sequentially ordered.

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