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Do you wish you could have homemade pie every day? You can, if you make it yourself! Homemade pie is easy to make, and delicious to eat. This page will tell you everything you need to know about how to make pie!
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How to Thicken Fruit Pies
- Flour: 2-4 tablespoons
- Cornstarch: 1 1/2- 3 tablespoons
- Arrowroot: 1 1/2- 3 tablespoons
- Tapioca: 1/4- 1/3 cup
- ClearJel: 1 1/2- 3 tablespoons
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How to Top a Pie
After putting all the work into making homemade pie, you want to make sure it looks good. Placing the pie crust neatly is easy with the method shown on this video. The expert in the clip rolls the top crust around her rolling pin, the rolls it off the rolling pin on to the pie, to position it neatly. She then demonstrates how to crimp the edges, and make decorative steam slits in the top crust.
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Step 1: Select Your Bottom Crust
- Many pies use a basic pastry crust for the bottom crust. You can also use a graham cracker crust, a chocolate crust, or a cookie crust.
- If the pie will be baked, such as an apple pie or a blueberry pie, you don't need to pre-bake the crust.
- If the pie shell is just being filled with a custard filling and chilled, it should be baked before filling.
- Consider adding a tablespoon of sugar and a complementary spice, such as an 1/8 teaspoon of cinnamon, to the crust for flavor.
- A teaspoon of vinegar added to the pie crust can help ensure that the crust is flaky.
Step 3: Select a Topping for Your Pie
- Pies can be topped with a pastry crust, either as a standard top crust or as a lattice crust.
- You can also top pies with a streusel crust or meringue.
- Pies can also be topped with whipped cream.
Step 2: Select a Filling
- You are only limited by your imagination when you think about what you can bake in a pie.
- Fruit pies are filled with chopped fruit and sugar. Some fruits benefit from a tablespoon of lemon juice to perk up the flavor. Flour or tapioca is added to fruit pies to thicken the juices.
- Cream pies are actually custards that are thickened by cooking milk with eggs on the stove top until thickened. Cream pies are using topped with whipped cream.
- Meringue pies are usually made with a base that's made with lemon or lime curd, thickened with eggs, and then baked briefly to set a meringue topping.
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