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Discover the secrets behind creating delicious pies with this informative guide by Miss Young Pastry. Learn about essential pastry ingredients—including flour, fat, water, and salt—along with effective preparation methods like the popular biscuit method. Whether you're making a one-crust pie or experimenting with fruit, cream, custard, or chiffon pies, you'll find practical tips for achieving the perfect flaky, tender crust. Enjoy the journey of pastry making with patience and practice, and delight in the end result—a beautifully baked pie that tantalizes the taste buds!
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Pastry • The dough used to make piecrusts. • Pastry making is not difficult. • Requires practice and patience.
Flour - structure Fat – tender, inhibits development of gluten Water - moisture Salt - flavor Ingredients of Pastry:
Preparing Pastry: • Several methods - biscuit method is most popular. • Produces pastry that is both tender and flaky. • One-crust pie: prick the bottom and sides of the piecrust with a fork to prevent blistering during baking.
Preparing Pastry (cont.): • Use a pastry blender to cut shortening into flour. • Add cold water to pastry. • Place the dough on a piece of wax paper. • Lightly flour the dough. • Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough – bigger than the circumference of the pie plate.
Preparing Pastry (cont.): • To lift the dough, place a rolling pin close to an edge of the pie plate. • Slowly roll the pin towards you while lifting the dough. • Flute the crust.
Kinds of Pies: • Fruit • Cream • Custard • Chiffon
Fruit Pie • 2 crusts or lattice • Fruit filling • Fresh, canned, frozen, or dried fruit
Cream Pie • 1 crust filling • Cornstarch thickened pudding mixture • Meringue topping
Custard Pie • 1 crust custard • Milk • Eggs • Sugar
Chiffon Pie • 1 crust light airy mixture • Gelatin and beaten egg whites • Chill chiffon pie until filling sets.
Filling pleasing Flavor Texture Characteristics of a high quality pie: • Tender • Flaky • Crisp crust • Evenly browned
Review • What ingredients are used to make pastry? • What method will we use to make pastry? • What do you use to cut the shortening into the flour? • What are the four types of pies we discussed? • What is a lattice? • What are some of characteristics used to describe a high - quality pastry? • What are your favorite types of pies?