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

Ken Haedrich

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

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

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The Pie and Pastry Bible

Rose Levy Beranbaum

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Total reviews: 76 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The Pie and Pastry Bible is your magic wand for baking the pies, tarts, and pastries of your dreamsthe definitive work by the country's top baker who's a frequent contributor to all the major food magazines and The New York Times. This extensive, 692 page cookbook includes:

More than 300 recipes, 200 drawings of techniques and equipment, and 70 color pictures of finished pies, tarts, and pastries

Easy-to-follow recipes for a variety of pies, tarts and tartlets, turnovers, dumplings, biscuits, scones, crostadas, galettes, strudel, fillo, puff pastry, croissants, Danish, brioche, sticky buns, cream puffs, and profiteroles

All kinds of fillings, glazes, toppings, sauces, and pastry creams

A separate chapter devoted to making foolproof flaky, tender, and original crusts of every kind imaginable

Countless tips that solve any pastry problem

Extensive decorating techniques for the beginner baker and professional alike that show you how to make chocolate curls, pipe rosettes, crystallize flowers and leaves, and much more...

The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy

Barbara Swell

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Illustrated with vintage photos and laced with advice 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 15 people found this review helpful.

The Lost Art Of Pie Making Made Easy is a slender (72-page) gem of a specialty cookbook dedicated to passing along the pie-making wisdom of an American yesteryear to a new generation of kitchen cooks with an appreciation for old-fashion recipes that range from Double Sour Cherry Amaretto; Aunt Martha's Coconut Cream; Bourbon Pecan; and Mom's Lemon Meringue; to Honey Apple Dumplings, Louisiana Peanut; Hot Fudge Funny Cake, and Vanilla Crumb. The Lost Art Of Pie Making Made Easy is more than just another recipe collection, it is nicely enhanced throughout with such tidbits of advice as how to overcoming pie crust fear and how to host your own pie contest, to insights into just why men love pie and a pie calorie work-off system. Illustrated with vintage photos and laced with advice from 1930's era "Pie Aunts", The Lost Art Of Pie Making Made Easy will prove to be an immediately popular addition to any kitchen cookbook collection -- not to mention family dinner menu planning!

Editorial Review:

The Lost Art of Pie Making shows you how to make a darn good pie in a jiffy. You'll feel like you're in your grandma's kitchen, where she teaches you the secrets of her tender, flakey pie crust and shares recipes taken from handwritten 19th century cooking journals, recipes like Dutch Oven Apple Cherry, Vanilla Crumb, Fresh Raspberry, Louisianna Peanut, Sour Cherry Ammaretto, and dozens more. There are also scores of vintage photos, pie insults, pie superstitions, pie advice, why men love pies and tips on how to host your own pie contest.

Killer Pies: Delicious Recipes from North America's Favorite Restaurants (Killer (Chronicle Books))

Stephanie Anderson

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Killer Pies is a very appropriate name for this book 2 out of 5 stars.
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It has an appealing layout and is interesting to READ, but beware of some of the recipes if you are at all health conscious. For example, "Sour Cream Raisin Pie" on p. 37, which makes one 9-inch pie, has a filling made from 4 cups raisins, 1 cup cornstarch, 12 egg yolks, 5 cups packed brown sugar and 4 cups sour cream. Whew! Another example, "Johnny's Cafe Pecan Pie" on p. 45, also a 9-inch pie, has 12 eggs in the filling! Not all the recipes are as rich, but a good many are.
I know that pies are not diet food but these are really over the limit. I was disappointed with this cookbook.

Like a meringue that collapsed.... 2 out of 5 stars.
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I wanted to like this book. Just look at the yummy pie featured on the cover!

....But wait, that pie is nowhere to be found in the book!

And if you wondered what makes these pies the best in North America, keep on wondering -- it's never revealed what makes these restaurants/diners the "best" (and I doubt that they are). I looked forward to a tale of the author eating her way across the country, but instead the book begins with a tale about her pie-eating as a child, and the claim that people like to eat pie mostly for nostalgic reasons. Why doesn't anyone ever say that about cookies, muffins, or cakes, I wonder?

Examining these pictures, and the somewhat anemic pies shown in them, I realized the unlikelihood that the photos were taken by the same person; many of the photos depict the pie whose recipe is on the page (from a variety of unflattering angles, and two of dark-colored berry pies are shown on blue plates, making it impossible to really see them), but some photos show the outside of the restaurant. Some show the seating area in the restaurant, or the pie case. One shows a waitress holding a pie. Several of the photos are blurry. I suspect the restaurants submitted their own photos; thus, there is a disjointed feel to the photography, leaving me wondering if the author of this book has eaten any of the pies shown in the book.

The pies were mostly uninspired, and on close inspection, don't even look appetizing. I was disappointed to discover there is not a single recipe I wanted to eat, much less bake.

Editorial Review:

Killer Pies - Delicious Recipes from North America's Favorite Restaurants By Stephanie Anderson"Key Lime...Peach blackberry...Sour cream raisin...Maple walnut...Chocolate pecan..."Killer Pies presents 50 fresh-baked recipes from award-winning bakers acros

Pie & Tart (Williams-Sonoma Collection)

Carolyn Beth Weil

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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With the best ingredients and a little practice, baking is just as easy as pie -- and there's no better way to enjoy juicy, ripe fruit or a silky chocolate or lemon custard than with a delicious, flaky crust. And, when made from scratch, a pie or tart is a simple way to make any meal special.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Pie & Tart offers more than 40 recipes that will inspire you to bake pies and tarts at any time throughout the year. Whether you want to serve an elegant pear tart at an autumn dinner party, need to satisfy a craving for a piece of old-fashioned banana cream pie, or are simply looking for a recipe that uses up an abundance of plums from your backyard tree, you will find plenty of irresistible ideas inside. In addition, a chapter devoted entirely to rustic tarts offers new ways to serve up some of your favorite seasonal fruits as simple and beautiful desserts.

Beautiful, full-color photographs of each pie and tart make it easy to decide which one to prepare, and photographic side notes throughout explain key ingredients and techniques, making Pie & Tart much more than just a fine collection of recipes.

A detailed basics section and glossary also help you to discover the pie- and tart-baking secrets that will assist you in making these well-loved desserts for many years to come.

Old-fashioned apple pie, fresh fruit tart with pastry cream, billowy lemon meringue pie, or silky chocolate pie -- These are just a few of the pies and tarts that hold places of honor among our all-time favorite desserts.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Pie & Tart offers more than 40 easy-to-follow recipes that will inspire you to bake familiar classics as well as fresh new ideas. From exquisite creme brulée tartlets to a luscious summer peach pie to an irresistibly sweet pineapple galette, you will find a pie or tart recipe inside perfectly suited for any occasion. This beautifully photographed, full-color recipe collection is certain to become an essential addition to your kitchen bookshelf.

Bubby's Homemade Pies

Ronald M. Silver, Jen Bervin

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

You can never know too much about pies 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This was purchased as one of the Christmas gifts for my wife. She is an accomplished baker of pies, but I felt that even if she knows 99% of what's included in the book, she might still pick up a hint or new idea by looking through the book. And, she did pick up new ideas as she skimmed through it on Christmas morning. She does continue to refer to the book when contemplating a baking session.

Editorial Review:

"One of my fondest childhood memories is of my aunt's pies cooling on the window sill, while father sat with his deputy . . . wait . . . that might be Opie Taylor. If you love pie, and I can only assume you do, Bubby's pies are the best. I'm eating one right now."
--Jon Stewart

"I almost ate the book! If my bubby made pies like this, I'd weigh 400 pounds."
--Billy Crystal

"If a pie cooling in a country breeze is your idea of baking nirvana, with its golden crust and juicy filling beckoning, then the delightful recipes in Bubby's Homemade Pies will guide you toward that goal and, perhaps, initiate the appearance of 'Pie of the Month' at your house. Now wouldn't that be a sweet and welcoming sight?"
--Lisa Yockelson, award-winning author of Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate

"My dad always says, 'Save your fork, there's pie!'"
--Kate Douglass, owner of The Spotted Pig

Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie

Patty Pinner

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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“Women sharpen women. I’m convinced that you can learn a lot about a woman based on what she feeds herself and the people she loves; a woman’s recipes--especially her prized recipes--are a revelation of who the woman is: what she thinks, how she behaves, what she values, and how she lives her life.”
This is a collection of 70 such pie recipes, gathered from the women in author Patty Pinner’s life--family, friends, women who are part of her own personal history. What distinguishes this book is its utterly beguiling storytelling--each recipe is accompanied by a story told on the woman known for making the pie, from Sister Baby’s Buttermilk Pie to Miss Hatfield and Her Jelly Pies. It also filled with the truths handed down by our mothers (or that we wish had been handed down by our mothers) like: “An unhappy husband will ask for toasted snow” and “You don’t want a man who is jealous of nothing or everything.” This is a cookbook that’s about love, life, family, friendship, and community as much as it is about the recipes.

Betty Crocker Bisquick Impossibly Easy Pies: Pies that Magically Bake Their Own Crust

Betty Crocker Editors

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By popular demand–the first-ever collection of Betty Crocker's most frequently requested "Impossibly Easy Pie" recipes

Home cooks simply can't get enough of Impossibly Easy Pies, the pies that "magically" make their own crust without the fuss of mixing, rolling, or prebaking. Combining the convenience of Bisquick with tasty, easy-to-make recipes from the Betty Crocker Kitchens, these pies have been a favorite in American households for almost 25 years. Now, Betty Crocker brings together 125 recipes for dinner and dessert pies that are impossibly easy and impossibly delicious, from most-requested classics like French Apple Pie and Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie to new taste combinations like Beef Steak Pie with Burgundy Gravy and Crabmeat Creole Pie. There are recipe options for weeknights and casual get-togethers as well as holidays and special occasions, including recipes with "crowd-size" variations to make sure that there's always room to invite one more.

Perfect on its own or as a companion to Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook and Betty Crocker Bisquick II Cookbook, this book puts delectable home-baked pies within reach of every home cook.

Great Pies & Tarts: Over 150 Recipes to Bake, Share, and Enjoy

Carole Walter

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Excellent Resource for Baking Great Pies 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I think this book on Great Pies & Tarts is fantastic. It provides many wonderful recipes. But the best aspect of the book is that the author provides key insights into how to bake a pie and strategies for troubleshooting your pie when your pie did not come out as well as you would have liked. It tells you the basics that you should know if you bake any pie. It describes details in pie making that you would only get with experience. So if you want to start off pie making with guidance, avoiding simple mistakes, and with knowledge of required basics, then this cook book is necessary. Moreover, with the knowledge provided by the author, you are inspired to create wonderful pies. It is not just a book with recipes. It is a book which empowers you to create great pies. The only improvement I would recommend is that it would be helpful if every cookbook provided pictures of the result of every recipe, which would be labor intensive. Otherwise this book is more than just a cookbook, it is a source of inspiration and experience.

Editorial Review:

Carole Walter makes it easy for even beginners to create delicious pies and tarts. Simple, step-by-step instructions show how to make both American-style pie pastry and French-style tart pastry. Also included are the four basic recipes on which all other pies and tarts are based. Finall, Walter offers over 150 recipes for both sweet and savory pies, tarts, and sauces, including:

• Blueberry Crumb Pie with Warm Blueberry Sauce
• Java Eggnog Pie
• Flourless Macaroon Tart in Almond Nut Pastry
• Apple Tarte Tatin
• Wild Mushroom Tart with Savory Streusel

This accessible book is a must-have for beginners and an ideal reference for experienced pastry chefs.

The Complete Book of Pies: 200 Recipes from Sweet to Savory

Julie Hasson

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Pie-baking made easy.

What could be better than a fresh summer pie brimming with sweet ripe fruit, or a steaming chicken pot pie? Baking a homemade pie from scratch is surprisingly easy with Julie Hasson's guidance, and the results are rewarding.

The Complete Book of Pies is like having your grandmother in the kitchen with you. The entire pie-making process is covered in easy-to-follow detail from start to finish. The book is filled with hundreds of recipes for fruit, cream and savory pies along with dozens of special tips and time-saving shortcuts to help make pie-baking a breeze. There are tips for making dough and rolling it; ideas for decorative pie tops; and quick and easy alternatives to pastry dough.

These luscious recipes are among the many that are sure to please:

• Apple cranberry spice crumb pie, brown sugar apple pie with almond crumb topping
• Blueberry pie, boysenberry pie, bumbleberry crumb pie, peach pie, sour cherry pie
• White chocolate key lime pie, chocolate cream pie, butterscotch cream pie, coconut cream pie
• Chocolate chip pecan pie, rum pecan pie, chocolate truffle tart, chocolate peanut butter mousse pie
• Caramelized onion, thyme and olive tart, quiche lorraine, chicken pot pie with mushrooms and leeks.

Both the novice and experienced baker will benefit from the author's extensive baking expertise. Sixteen pages of color photographs and extensive illustrations provide baking guidance and inspiration. The Complete Book of Pies is a basic reference for any home baker.