Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie

Ken Haedrich

Harvard Common Press, 2004 - Cooking - 639 pages

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. Every recipe has been tested for success and features advice and tips specifically for that pie. Chapters include: "Berry Good Pies," "Rich, Sweet, and Simple: Chess, Buttermilk, and Other Custard Pies," "Personal Pies, Turnovers, and Other Little Pie Treats," and of course, the foundation chapter, "Pie Pastries and Crumb Crusts."

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User Review  - auntieknickers - LibraryThing

Sure has a lot of pie recipes, and a lot of opinions on making pie and pastry. For pie crust he gives ways to make it by hand, with a food processor, or with a stand mixer - useful.

Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie

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Haedrich is the author of more than half a dozen cookbooks with an emphasis on baking. His Apple Pie Perfect featured 100 recipes; his latest features 25 new recipes for that dish alone, along with ...

Contents

• What It Takes to Make the Perfect Pie: 1
• Pie Pastries and Crumb Crusts: 25
• A Profusion of Summer Fruit Pies: 59
• Berry Good Pies: 137
• Make Mine Apple: 195
• Cranberry Pear Pumpkin and Other Classic Fall Pies: 249
• Pecan Pie and Beyond: 321
• Chess Buttermilk and Other Custard Pies: 359
• Personal Pies Turnovers and Other Little Pie Treats: 411
• Cream Pies Chiffon Pies and So Much More: 451
• Inviting Ice Cream and Other Freezer Pies: 531
• A Pie Potpourri: 557
• The Final Touch: 603
• RESOURCES: 609
• MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENTS: 612
• INDEX: 615

About the author

Ken Haedrich is the author of the definitive book on pie, Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie, which Melissa Clark in the New York Times called "a masterful pastry tome" and which Cooking light magazine named one of the 100 best cookbooks of the past 25 years. He has written 12 other cookbooks, including Home for the Holidays, which won an International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award, Dinner Pies, Country Baking, and Apple Pie. He has been a regular contributor to Bon Appetit, Better Homes and Gardens, and Eating Well magazines and he currently serves as Dean of The Pie Academy (thepieacademy.com), an online destination for pie-making wisdom and lore. A native of New Jersey and a former Navy Seabee, he lives with his wife in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie; Non Series
• Author: Ken Haedrich
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 2004
• ISBN: 155832254X, 9781558322547
• Length: 639 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Pies