Easy as Pie: The Essential Pie Cookbook for Every Season and Reason

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A warm slice of homemade pie can complete any celebration—but every baker knows that a problematic pie is enough to sour a sweet occasion. This pie cookbook gives you the support you need to start making perfect, homemade pies from scratch. This pie cookbook gets your dough rolling, complete with step-by-step techniques for mixing, shaping, rolling, and finishing your dough. Refine your pastry base with a fail-safe, flaky, buttery crust recipe—or taste the seasons with 50 creative and classic seasonal pies. This pie cookbook includes: Baked to pie-fection—Get advice in this pie cookbook on fundamental tools, common terms, and pantry essentials—as well as troubleshooting for soggy bottoms, cracked custard, and more. Crust you can trust—Achieve the tastiest, flakiest crust with a fail-safe, all-butter recipe, in addition to master recipes for a variety of crusts. Year-round yum—Enjoy a slice of every season with this pie cookbook, including beautiful, delicious pies for spring, summer, fall, and winter, as well as pies suitable for any time of year. Master the art of pie-making and start enjoying a lifetime of fresh, homemade pie with this pie cookbook. Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction Chapter One: The Simple Art of Pie Chapter Two: Foolproof Crust: A Step-By-Step Guide Chapter Three: Master Crust Recipes Basic All-Butter Pie Dough Combination Butter-Lard Pie Dough Gluten-Free Pie Dough Almond Shortbread Crust Cookie Crusts Chapter Four: Spring and Summer Pies Strawberry-Rhubarb Lattice Pie Almond-Rhubarb Galette Apricot and Browned Butter Pie Blueberry Lattice Pie Blackberry-Nectarine Slab Pie Perfect Peach Pie Raspberry-Peach Streusel Pie Classic Cherry Pie Cherry Frangipane Pie Stone Fruit Galette Mixed Berry Slab Pie Key Lime Pie Lemon Meringue Pie Limoncello-Berry Pie Grasshopper Pie White Chocolate and Raspberry Icebox Pie Toasted S’mores Icebox Pie Goat Cheese and Tomato Quiche Chapter Five: Fall and Winter Pies All-American Apple Pie Apple Butter Slab Pie Apple-Cheddar Pie Dutch Apple Pie Rosemary and Apple Hand Pies Cranberry-Pear Galette Pear, Raisin, and Gruyère Pie Blood Orange Meringue Pie Orange-Ginger Pie Pumpkin Chiffon Pie Classic Pumpkin Pie Sweet Potato Pie Salted Honey Pie Pecan Pie Eggnog Cream Pie Maple, Walnut, and Bourbon Pie Fig, Onion, and Gorgonzola Galette Day-After-Thanksgiving Turkey Potpie Chapter Six: Anytime Pies Banana Cream Pie Banoffee Pie Coconut Cream Pie Buttermilk Pie Chess Pie Chocolate Silk Pie Cookies and Cream Pie Nutella Cream Pie PB&J Pie Whiskey-Butterscotch Pie Mushroom-Spinach Quiche Pineapple, Ham, and Cheese Hand Pies Chicken-Chorizo Hand Pies Beef Stroganoff Pie Measurement Conversions Resources Acknowledgments About the Author