MAKE PIES TO FREEZE AND BAKE LATER – AN EASY HOW TO GUIDE
When it comes to cooking a large meal, I’m all about doing as much work ahead of time as possible. I’ve got enough going on when I’m planning to feed a crowd, the last thing that I want to do is spend all of my time in the kitchen when I could be socializing with my guests. Making pies ahead of time is a great way to save time over the holidays, especially on a such food-centric holiday as Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is the biggest pie consumption day of the year…for me. I’m pretty confident that I’m not alone in that statistic. While the Thanksgiving feast can be vary between simple to elaborate depending on personal preferences and traditions, there is always room at the table for pie. More than 36 million Americans vote apple to be our favorite pie, with strawberry-rhubarb pie, pumpkin pie, and cherry pie rounding out the top Thanksgiving picks.
According to the National Pie Council, 90% of Americans agree that a slice of pie represents the simple pleasures in life. How can it not? A slice of pie is pure comfort, invoking the warm feelings of home. To quote my favorite Pie Maker, “Pie is home. People always come home.” (–Ned, Pushing Daisies.)
If pie is home, it’s only natural that pie should be served when people come home for the holidays. It’s symbolic! Do you know what pie isn’t? Complicated. The fact that pie isn’t complicated or fussy is a baker’s best kept secret. Pie crust can be made at home in about 5 minutes with just 4 simple ingredients. Fill that crust with some sliced fruit, a little sugar, and a touch of thickener and you’re well on your way to one of life’s simpler pleasures–a warm slice of pie!
Do you want to know another secret? Fruit pies can easily be made well ahead of time and frozen to be baked another day. True story! Fruit pies freeze beautifully. A frozen crust also shrinks less when baked than a freshly rolled crust, so it holds its shape in the oven. In fact, filling and freezing a pie before baking it virtually eliminates the threat of a soggy bottom crust! I learned that cool tip from Rose Levy Beranbaum in her The Pie and Pastry Bible. Rose knows what’s up when it comes to pie!
So plan your holiday party menus to cook the day of, but save time by making the pies ahead of time.
for full instruction please see : comfortablydomestic.com
Thanksgiving is the biggest pie consumption day of the year…for me. I’m pretty confident that I’m not alone in that statistic. While the Thanksgiving feast can be vary between simple to elaborate depending on personal preferences and traditions, there is always room at the table for pie. More than 36 million Americans vote apple to be our favorite pie, with strawberry-rhubarb pie, pumpkin pie, and cherry pie rounding out the top Thanksgiving picks.
According to the National Pie Council, 90% of Americans agree that a slice of pie represents the simple pleasures in life. How can it not? A slice of pie is pure comfort, invoking the warm feelings of home. To quote my favorite Pie Maker, “Pie is home. People always come home.” (–Ned, Pushing Daisies.)
If pie is home, it’s only natural that pie should be served when people come home for the holidays. It’s symbolic! Do you know what pie isn’t? Complicated. The fact that pie isn’t complicated or fussy is a baker’s best kept secret. Pie crust can be made at home in about 5 minutes with just 4 simple ingredients. Fill that crust with some sliced fruit, a little sugar, and a touch of thickener and you’re well on your way to one of life’s simpler pleasures–a warm slice of pie!
Do you want to know another secret? Fruit pies can easily be made well ahead of time and frozen to be baked another day. True story! Fruit pies freeze beautifully. A frozen crust also shrinks less when baked than a freshly rolled crust, so it holds its shape in the oven. In fact, filling and freezing a pie before baking it virtually eliminates the threat of a soggy bottom crust! I learned that cool tip from Rose Levy Beranbaum in her The Pie and Pastry Bible. Rose knows what’s up when it comes to pie!
So plan your holiday party menus to cook the day of, but save time by making the pies ahead of time.
for full instruction please see : comfortablydomestic.com
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