kitchen grumbles

[browneyedgirl65]

(ETA: I corrected the amount of butter below! If you printed this off or something, check for the correction

Comments

[sapphirescarlet]

So if you try to pinch the crack together after refrigerating the dough, it won't work? That's very interesting. My mother has always complained that she can't make pie dough, so I've never tried. I'll have to print this out and save it. Thanks!

[browneyedgirl65]

You can, if it's a vertical crack...but if you pull up to get a crust, it gets too thin on the sides, and then cracks while cooking.

But the vertical cracks you can fix, you just have to really really fix them, not sort of smooth them over but mush them together then smooth it a bit.

[wyrdwriter]

They both sound WONDERFUL!!! Recipes, please?

MY pie dough recipe? Go to store. Buy Pilsbury Crust. Bake according to directions. SNORT!

If that dough is still salvageable for something else...
Leave it rolled out.
Spread softened butter over it (about 1/4 c).
Sprinkle with:
about 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
1/4 C Brown Sugar
About a teaspoon or so of cinnamon,
1/8 teaspoon or so each of nutmeg and all spice
Cup of chopped walnuts.
Roll into a cylinder (like you would a jelly roll),
cut into 1" slices.
Bake at 375-400 for 20-30 minutes.
We call them pie crust cookies and Charlie LOVES them.
Sorry I can give better ingredients! The "recipe" has been passed down for generations and nobody measures it!

[browneyedgirl65]

Oh, that sounds like fun and tasty! I'll have to give that a whirl!

I plan to post the recipes later...don't have them with me. I know the pie dough by heart but not the pie filings :-)

[wyrdwriter]

I made this last night to double check the recipe because, like I said, there really isn't a recipe--I just make it.

400 degrees for 20-25 minutes--line the dish with nonstick foil or parchment paper as the brown sugar becomes caramel-like.

I over estimated all the ingredients. You pretty much sprinkle everything on the crust "to taste".

[moxie_mocha]

Recipes, please! Both of them sound delicious! :)

[browneyedgirl65]

Serving the recipes up tonight! Should have mentioned why I stopped where I did :-)

[johnmill79]

Jeez, I need to find me some pecan pie! Been so long since I've had any, but it's my favorite. My family never does that one, though. Maybe this year they'll surprise me. lol

[browneyedgirl65]

Dude...if it's possible, I'd be happy to bake you a pie and ship it to you. Can that even be done...? Hmmm...

[lisasali]

The pecan kahlua pie sounds amazing. (Kahlua is about the only alcohol I like). The tool you were describing is a pastry blender, and I'm with you; I could never do the two knives thing; what a chore!

[browneyedgirl65]

That's it!

And yeah, she'd go crissity cut cut cut with those things and voila. And I'd stand there, a little seven year old girl going buh? Ha.