Pie experiments

[jethrien]

I'm experimenting to try to invent snickerdoodle pie. I took my mother's Tollhouse pie recipe and sort of crossed with Momofuku's Crack Pie recipe, then added cinnamon chips. Anyway, I decorated the rim of the snickerdoodle pie with little leaf cutouts so that you can tell snickerdoodle pie from Tollhouse pie. Well, the snickerdoodle pie seems to have decided that it is not a pie, it is a souffle. It has risen up out of its crust, like some kind of bloated mutant rubber monster, and eaten all my poor little leaves. Now it looms over its terrified Tollhouse cousin cooling on the next rack.

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[firynze.livejournal.com]

For last year's Piemas, I completely borked the crusts of BOTH pies. I docked them and everything, but I couldn't find my pie weights and didn't want to waste that many beans, so I figured "They'll be okay!"

Yeah, no. The crusts slumped and oozed and could NOT be filled. Das Boy had to take over crustmaking in an emergency.

Ahhh, exuberant pie.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Pennies. Pennies in tinfoil. It's what I always used before I got my pie weight chain.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Oooh, never even thought of that. My pie weights were large hardware store washers.