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Let's make pie! (Original Post) mysteryowl Sep 2019 OP
Cheddar cheese. LisaM Sep 2019 #1
Fantastic! I love the saying. I have never heard that one. mysteryowl Sep 2019 #2
Please steal it! LisaM Sep 2019 #5
Wow mysteryowl Sep 2019 #8
Mom? A HERETIC I AM Sep 2019 #6
LOL. LisaM Sep 2019 #13
Cinnamon ice cream. AJT Sep 2019 #3
That sounds really good mysteryowl Sep 2019 #4
Vanilla if it's ice cream. Laffy Kat Sep 2019 #7
The cheddar seems to be very popular mysteryowl Sep 2019 #10
Make your pie dough in your food processor. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2019 #9
Great method! I like it. mysteryowl Sep 2019 #11
I once had a recipe for pie crust made with grated cheddar yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #12

LisaM

(27,802 posts)
1. Cheddar cheese.
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 08:37 PM
Sep 2019

Our family had a saying - apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

I do like vanilla ice cream with pie, or cinnamon ice cream with apple pie, but I really do like apple pie with cheese.

LisaM

(27,802 posts)
5. Please steal it!
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 08:58 PM
Sep 2019

The only other similar reference I saw was in the Betsy-Tacy books where if one of the little five year old girls was seen without the other, people would shout, "where's the cheese, apple pie?"

There is a tearoom in Seattle that had (or maybe still has) cheddar cheese and apple pie filling sandwiches grilled in cinnamon bread and I can highly recommend that.

mysteryowl

(7,376 posts)
8. Wow
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 09:07 PM
Sep 2019
cheddar cheese and apple pie filling sandwiches grilled in cinnamon bread and I can highly recommend that.


A HERETIC I AM

(24,366 posts)
6. Mom?
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 09:00 PM
Sep 2019

LOL...same was said in our house! Both parents were Connecticut Yankees, so I'm not sure if it's a New England thing specifically, but I've never come across that anywhere else.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,366 posts)
9. Make your pie dough in your food processor.
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 09:20 PM
Sep 2019

Super quick and easy.

Cut your butter into cubes and freeze it solid before you start. Blitz the flour, salt, sugar and butter till it looks like cornmeal.

(I realize I may be talking to people who have been making pie crusts since I was in grade school, but oh well!)

ICE COLD WATER! Add it a tablespoon at a time, blitzing after each. Don't add too much! It's enough when the mix clumps together when you pinch it between your fingers. Dump it out onto your board like they show, kneed it a few times to get it together and form a ball, wrap in cling film and refrigerate.

**Edit to add**. There's some science at work here! The cold clumps of butter are what makes for a flaky crust. You want your dough to have visible hunks of butter (or shortening, if you use Crisco, for instance. Same principal) , so that when the crust bakes, the butter liquefies and the flour around it cooks in layers, thus making the flakiness we look for.

"Blind Bake" your crust if you are making a pie with a juicy, fruit filling. This will keep the bottom crust from getting soggy. The video did not show that, but it makes a big difference.

That BTW, is what Pie Weights are for.



YouTube is chock full of pie vids, but here's a great compilation of 8 totally yummy pie recipes from the new York Times website. Each is accompanied by a short, silent vid. Use the arrows to navigate and click the hyperlinks to the full recipes;

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/dining/thanksgiving-pies.html

Ah, crap! I've had that page bookmarked for a couple years now and didn't realize they moved it behind their paywall.

Well, as I said, plenty of pie vids on YouTube, but supporting the NYT is a good idea anyway!


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