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Learn to COOK - Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie
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Manufacturer: Harvard Common Press
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: HARVARD COMMON PRESS
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8652
EAN: 9781558322547
Feature: Pie by Ken Haedrich
ISBN: 155832254X
Label: Harvard Common Press
Manufacturer: Harvard Common Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2004-09
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Studio: Harvard Common Press
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Pie by Ken Haedrich
HARVARD COMMON PRESS
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The most comprehensive and straightforward book ever written on the topic, Pie is a complete guide to how easy it can be to make perfectly praiseworthy pies. After providing an overview of the pie making process, Ken walks you through pastry making, using a food processor, an electric mixer, or simply your hands. You will learn how to choose the proper pan for a nicely browned bottom crust; how to roll out the pastry; how and why to prebake crust; how to prevent burned edges, and even how to decorate your pie. Includes 300 no-fail recipes for: Classic and new fall pies: Very Cranberry-Pear Pie, Spiced Pumpkin Indian Pudding Pie, Brown Sugar Apple Pie Berry pies: Strawberry-Rhubarb Crumb Pie, Sour Cream-Blackberry Pie, Wild Blueberry-Maple Pie Summer fruit pies: The Ultimate Four-Cherry Pie, Lemonade-Peach Pie, Fresh Plum and Port Pie Nut pies: Molasses Walnut Pie, Butterscotch Pecan Pie, Trail Mix Peanut Butter Pie Custard pies: Three Sisters Coconut Buttermilk Pie, Classic Chess Pie Icebox and ice cream pies: Watermelon Chiffon Pie, Classic Lemon Meringue Pie, Creamsicle Ice Cream Pie 639 pages
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Summary: Not what I expected
Comment: Not exactly what I was looking for. If you like classic pies, nothing really out of the ordinary, then you'll love it.
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Summary: mmm
Comment: i like pie.
this cookbook is an excellent resource vis-a-vis the aforementioned predilection.
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Summary: Oh, excellent EXCELLENT!
Comment: For the first time in my life I am now making completely awesome pies FROM SCRATCH. I totally won my family's thanksgiving bake-off this past holiday season.
Mmmmm, pie.
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Summary: Easy As Pie
Comment: Finding a great pie anywhere is extremely difficult. In fact, it is rare that I would even ask for pie as a dessert choice because they are usually not very good. However, my hankering for pie reached a frenzy after watching the movie "Waitress".
For those unfamiliar with that movie, its main character explains her feelings through coming up with creative pies. When the movie's credits began, my longing for pie took hold of me. I was convinced, after many attempts, that there was no really great pie out there, so I decided to make my own.
After a great deal of research, I found this book. It is really outstanding. The writing is fun and easy to read. It is well organized and takes the stress out of baking a pie for a first timer like me. Ken makes it seem so simple that during the past month I have made over 20 pies, ranging from fruit to nut to cream pies. I took a class about baking pies, but it did not hold a candle to Ken's book.
Those twenty pies have mostly been baked for other people. The joy a fresh baked pie gives to someone makes me feel like I am making a difference. People love getting homemade pies, so much so it almost brings them to tears. My husband's co-workers, people at the gym, employees at stores that I frequent, and neighbors have been the beneficiaries of most of them. The reviews have been outstanding! People have said that they are they best pies they've ever eaten. At first I thought they were just being nice, but those platitudes have come from non-pie lovers and even the most finicky eaters. People are so excited about getting pies that I just can't stop making them!
I would like to say that the best place to get a great pie is my house. However, that sounds a little conceited and is not one hundred percent true. The truth is, if you want to have a great pie make one of your own using "Pie: 300 Tried and True Recipes for Delicious Home Made Pie". You will not be disappointed. The only problem is that you might not be able to eat pie at a restaurant again. On the bright side, you will always have something great to bring to a potluck, cook out or give as a gift. Pie really is the best desert out there. It combines all the best of creativity, complexity, and bakery goodness.
Is it time to pity the pie? I think not. It is time to make pie! So "pie it forward"
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Summary: lovely book
Comment: "Pie" is a perfectly lovely book. The section on crust is outstanding; however, the 5 pie recipes I have tried so far are good, but not quite fabulous. Yes, I followed the directons to the letter and own a bakery, so I do know pies.
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