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[xiphias]

So, Lis wants me to make something sweet to eat. I have one pie crust (for a single-pie crust) left over from the double-pie crust recipe I made a couple days ago.

So, I've got a pie crust.

I've got basic baking staples in the house, but I'm going to have to go down to the supermarket before I cook, anyway, just the one down the corner (Lis has the car today).

What kind of pie should I make?

In other news, my father was in a car accident last night and broke his collarbone. He's okay, except for the broken collarbone, but still, just in case you're going to shul tomorrow, his name is דוד בצאליל בן שרה (David Betzaleil ben Sarah).

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[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Make Lemon Merangue pie. Its relatively easy to make, only requires one crust, and in a pinch, you can totally cheat and use lemon pudding for the bottom layer instead of making your own lemon custard.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1837,156182-226201,00.html

This is not my recipe, but it's very similar. I usually bake it at 350 until the pie doesn't jiggle in the middle anymore. You *need* to use real sugar, and it should be a gorgeous golden brown on the top when it's done.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Hmm. . . . yeah. That looks interesting. I'll just have to make sure the store has buttermilk -- some times of year, they don't; I don't know why. . . I'm leaning toward this one, I think.

Is it still apple season?

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

This is my foster dad's mother's Thanksgiving pie.

Apple Crumb Pie

Filling:
4 large, tart apples (greenings, winesaps, or baldwins)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt

Pare apples and slice into unbaked pieshell - arrange so top surface is smooth. Sprinkle other ingredients on.

Topping:
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup butter

Sift sugar with flour; cut in butter until crumbly; sprinkle over pie. Place
tin foil over pie (turn down edges to prevent browning).

450 degrees for 15 minutes; reduce to 375 degrees & remove foil; then another 25-30 minutes.

Fun fact: 1.5 times this recipe is enough for 3 Oronoque Orchards pie crusts (our preferred brand due to lack of lard).

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Oh, another favorite one crust recipe of mine is the pumpkin chiffon pie recipe found in Joy of Cooking

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Pumpkin.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Lemon meringue is great if you are feeling adventurous. Otherwise, it's hard to go wrong with apple pie. I usually make them with one crust and a crumb topping.

POTATO AND MEAT PIE

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

4 c. mashed potatoes, seasoned with butter, salt, pepper and a pinch of nutmeg
1 med. onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 lb. ground beef
1 sweet pepper, in strips
1/2 c. oil
3 hard boiled eggs, sliced
10 olives, chopped
2 tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 c. raisins (optional)

Heat oil and saute onion with garlic; add sweet pepper and cook over a quick fire a few minutes. Add meat, stirring to blend well all ingredients and when beef is cooked remove from the fire. Season to taste and add sliced boiled eggs and chopped olives (you can also, if you like it, add 1/2 cup raisins previously soaked in water). Spray a baking dish with cooking spray and cover the bottom with a layer of the meat mixture. Cover top with a layer of the mashed potatoes. Score top with fork, spread with the grated cheese (and if you like some paprika, to color it). Bake in a moderate oven until the top is lightly browned. Serve hot. You can serve it with a green salad.


Ah lurv me a good meat pie! Only thing different I do is replace raisins with Apples. Raisins are teh evil!

Is from Cooks.com.

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

That sounds good, but we keep kosher in the house, and it's a dairy pie crust -- butter, y'know.

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[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Whoops!

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

All that means is I need to come up with a savory form of the crust without sugar and using beef fat or schmaltz or something instead of butter.

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[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Wonder if you could make a nice crust with olive oil?

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Too soft. You need fats that are solid at room temperature, basically.

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[jehanna.livejournal.com]

If you need a pie crust that works equally well for savory or sweet that is nondairy, make the traditional American crisco pie crust. It's the one I generally use, and the only thing I use crisco for.

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[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Crisco is getting hard to find, because a lot of stores are moving trans-fats off their shelves. And if a person wants certified kosher stuff, it doesn't work anyhow, because it doesn't have the certification. There is a soy margarine sold in the Boston area (possibly elsewhere) with the brand Shedd's Willow Run, that's certified kosher pareve. It's a little soft and bland, but mostly works ok. I've bought it at Trader Joe's, and at the Harvest in Central Square.

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[jehanna.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't found that it's hard to find--and in any case, it's been reformulated; it no longer contains trans-fats.

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[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just a local thing. I haven't seen it here in the last 2 years, except small quantities in a few big stores at winter holidays.

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

I've made pastry with goose fat, which needs to be put in with a spoon.

It wasn't kosher though, because it was half goose fat and half butter. Not that it would have been kosher anyway, because the goose wasn't.

The other day, I was chopping bacon on the little chopping board. Z saw me and said "You're traifing that chopping board!" "No," I replied, "You traifed it last week when you chopped the cheese on it, so now it doesn't matter." Only afterwards did it occur to me that this was an odd conversation for a fanatical teenage atheist to be having with an eclectic pantheist. We have a whole shelf of kosher stuff in our dining room, because dhole and

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I've made pastry with goose fat, which needs to be put in with a spoon.

It wasn't kosher though, because it was half goose fat and half butter. Not that it would have been kosher anyway, because the goose wasn't.

The other day, I was chopping bacon on the little chopping board. Z saw me and said "You're traifing that chopping board!" "No," I replied, "You traifed it last week when you chopped the cheese on it, so now it doesn't matter." Only afterwards did it occur to me that this was an odd conversation for a fanatical teenage atheist to be having with an eclectic pantheist. We have a whole shelf of kosher stuff in our dining room, because <user site="livejournal.com" user="dhole"> and <aethereal_girl"> stay here sometimes.

[anhelometuo.livejournal.com]

French Silk.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

No, my version of that uses a graham cracker crust, and I want to use up the pastry crust.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest Quiche but then, that would be more of a savory than a sweet.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Got two quiche in the fridge right now -- that's what happened to the rest of the pie dough.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Are nuts and canned pumpkin among your pantry staples? If so, I recommend this pie, which is a pumpkin pie of the pecan pie family.

For 1 single-crust pie:
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup sugar
0.5 cup maple syrup
1 cup canned pumpkin (or plain mashed pumpkin or winter squash)
1 cup pecans (or other nuts)
Spice as desired. I've used ground ginger and cinnamon, but it's also good with just maple, pecan, and pumpkin. Bake 50-60 minutes at 375F.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

And I wish your father a quick and complete recovery from his injury.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, I was planning on going to the store anyway, because I'm out of eggs. Oddly, the only things on that list which I don't have right how are the pumpkin and the eggs.

And maybe just the eggs -- I don't THINK I've got pumpkin, but I can check.

[gingicat]

Best wishes to your dad! I'll email a mi shebeirach request to my inlaws.

I like sweet potato pie, myself, Family recipe at http://www.gingicat.org/recipes/swpotpie.html.

[fibro-witch.livejournal.com]

My thoughts are with your dad.
I think you should go with Pumpkin, this being the season and all.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I'm always up for pumpkin pie myself.

I hope your Dad heals well and soon.

[cellio]

White torta is excellent, as is torta from gourds (which, if you think about it, are related to pumpkins).

I hope your father has a refuah sh'leimah.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the healing wishes for dad - and the excellent pie recipes! I'm impressed that you could spell his name in Hebrew letters! How did you do that?

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Egad! Was that the phone call I didn't get to in time last night? If so, I'm gonna break down and get an answering machine. I'm so glad it wasn't worse. Of course D. will be in my thoughts and prayers. If it won't hurt too much, please give him a hug for me.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

My prayers are with him.

Apple pie with a crumb topping.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Forget the filling. Roll out the crust, sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar, and bake. Or partially bake it, spread some jelly on it, and finish baking. Cut into strips or pie shapes, or whatever, and munch away. The best part of the pie is the crust, anyway!

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Hope your dad heals completely and quickly.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Good thoughts to your father.

Butter tart is very easy -- you melt 2 ounces of butter, and add it to 2 ounces of sugar, 2 ounces of raisins, a tablespoon of cream and a beaten egg, stir it, and pour it into the pie crust and bake for 30 minutes.

The reason this is easy is because I always have all of those things in the house.