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How and When to Dock a Pie Crust

Though you may sometimes be tempted, docking a pie crust has nothing to do with chucking it off the end of a pier! Like using pie weights, this is another method used when pre-baking a pie crust and i...

Recipe Review: The Cook's Illustrated Vodka Pie Crust

Have you heard of the vodka pie crust recipe? It made big news in the baking world when Cook's Illustrated first published it last fall. Half of the pie dough's moisture comes from vodka, which is 40%...

Pie vs. Tart: What's the Difference?

Our Pie Bakeoff is in full swing (have you entered your best pie yet?) For the next few weeks we are running posts each day with recipes, tips and inspiration, and soon we will begin posting entries f...

Food Science: The Anatomy of a Pie Crust

While you're busy dreaming up delicious pies to serve at your holiday dinners - or submit to our Best Pie Bake Off! - we thought we'd give you a tour of the part of the pie that sometimes gives us tro...

Pie Crust: Three Recipes

Did you know that we're having a Pie Bakeoff this month? Time to get baking! Whether it's your first pie, third pie, or eighteen-hundredth pie, you've got a shot to win one of our pretty prizes. (The ...

Two Ways to Transfer Pie Dough

With Fall being high time for pies and Thanksgiving getting closer, we thought we'd talk about pie crust. No, not about the ingredients (butter vs. shortening) or how to roll it out but rather how ...

Classic Recipe (and Video): Martha Stewart's Pâte Brisée

It's the first day of fall, and fall is high pie season for us. Sara Kate has already shared her favorite pie plate and a great sour cream pie crust recipe. But we also love this recipe from Martha St...

Non-Intimidating Dessert: Free-Form Crostatas

In her cookbook Barefoot Contessa Parties, Ina Garten says of her Apple Crostata, "This is my absolute, all-time favorite dessert. I've made it so often that I'm sure my friends are saying behind m...

Recipe: Sour Cream Pie Crust

From the middle of May until the end of November, I'm a pie girl. I have to restrain myself from eating it at every meal since my mother trained me from a very early age that leftover pie is fair game...

Summer Pies! Strawberry, Rhubarb, Lavender & Blueberry

Fresh strawberries and blueberries, rhubarb, raspberry and lemon. It is high pie season! Summer pies are classics - have you baked one yet? We look forward to summer pies all year, and we're starting ...

Recipe: Basic Pie Crust

Pastry and pie crusts all have roots in one basic recipe, but there are a myriad of tiny variations that bakers argue about endlessly. Butter, shortening, vodka - so many ways to tweak a pie crust! We...

Questions for Allie: Why Is My Pie Dough Shrinking?

Allie Lewis of Martha Stewart's Everyday Food asked for your holiday cooking questions. Here's the first of five questions Allie is answering for us - welcome to The Kitchn, Allie! Q: Despite not ov...

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