Pies are a favorite dessert everywhere. You can make a delicious homemade pie from home with a few tips and tricks. For some, the pie crust is the hardest to accomplish. For others, it's the cream filling. One you realize you can bake a pie, your family will be begging for more.
Rolling the Dough
Use the correct pie plates for better pies. Varieties include Pyrex, CorningWare or ceramic pie plates. Glass pie plates cook the pie evenly and allow the bottom crust to brown nicely. Do not place the cooked pie and plate on a cold surface after baking as this may cause the plate to crack.
The best pie crusts are light and flaky. The pie crust should flake apart with a fork. Do not handle the dough too much. Handling and rolling it too much will make the crust tough. Lightly dust the surface of the working area with flour. Dust the rolling pin as well. Begin rolling the dough from the center to the edges. Try to roll out the size of the crust as soon as possible.
Pie Plate
Dust the dough and your hands with flour. Gently fold the dough in half and place the dough into the pie crust with the fold in the middle of the plate. Unfold and let the edges overlap the plate. Pat the crust into the corners of the pie plate and across the bottom to remove air bubbles and to ensure a tight fit.
Repair any holes in the crust with your fingertips and a drop of water. Smooth the holes until they are gone.
Flute the edges of the pie crust between your thumb and forefinger if you are using one crust for the bottom. Press the edges of the two pie crusts together if you are using a top crust. Using a fork, press the tines of the fork into the edge of the crust, and slide the fork backward. Repeat this step all the way around the pie to seal the edges.
Extra Pie Crusts
Pie dough freezes well. This enables you to make more than one crust at a time and have pie crusts readily available without having to mix and roll all the time. Make more than one pie crust and place the crust and pie plate in the freezer uncovered. It takes approximately 2 hours for the dough to freeze. Remove the plate from the freezer and wrap the plate and crust with plastic wrap.
To stack multiple pie crusts, place wax paper in the pie plate before adding and preparing the dough. Freeze the dough and when frozen, lift the wax paper to remove the crust. Keep wax paper between the pie crusts. For example, the second crust with the wax paper underneath it will sit right into the first frozen crust, the third into the second and so on.
Store the pie crusts in the freezer in a spot where the crusts will not break. Store the pie crusts for up to 2 months.
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