The Best Pie Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is the secret to a great pie crust? ›

The number one tip most pie dough recipes will emphasize is using cold butter, cold water, cold hands—really cold everything. The colder the butter (or shortening) stays in the dough, the more it can stay self-contained until it hits the oven, creating bigger pockets of air.

Steak & Stilton - King of Pies - The incredible flavour of best british beef, sauteed in beef dripping, simmered in a rich beef gravy and combined with creamy fresh stilton cheese before being added to our hand made, buttery, shortcrust pastry. Gold Medal England's Best Pie.

The least popular types of pies were salted caramel, gooseberry, blueberry and peach, all being the most popular in only one state each.

There are several components to a good pie - a uniformly well-cooked crust that avoids the dreaded soggy bottom, light and flaky or moist and crumbly pastry (depending on the type of pastry used) and the perfect amount of filling - not so much it bursts the pie and causes sogginess but enough to ensure each mouthful ...

Key lime pie was invented in Key West, where Key limes are anything but scarce. Key limes are different from regular limes. Key limes are more aromatic, smaller, seedier and are more tart than regular limes. Key lime pie is the Sunshine State's official state pie.

While pumpkin pie gives pecan pie a run for its money at Thanksgiving, and apple pie, blueberry pie, key lime pie, and other flavors all have their fans in Texas, pecan pie is the No. 1 pie in the state.

Shaker lemon pie is a four-ingredient pie that originated in the Shaker communities of the Midwestern United States. To make this pie, lemon slices and sugar are placed in a bowl for several hours until the lemons are juicy, then eggs are beaten in and the mixture is poured into a pastry-lined pie dish.

Butter pie crust has the most flavor out of the three fats. This pie crust bakes up nice and golden brown, with plenty of flaky layers.

What ruins a pie crust? ›

Overworking pie dough

You should always stick to kneading your pie dough just enough so that the flour and the butter are combined, but not so much so that your dough becomes elastic and hard to work. In hindsight, the easiest way to fix an overworked pie crust is to prevent overworking it in the first place.

The acid in the apple cider vinegar tenderizes the dough by slowing the gluten production in the dough. This prevents it from getting tough and elastic like bread dough. Love me tender. If you've ever bitten into a slice of pie with a tough crust, you know the value in a tender, flaky pie crust.

Paradise Bakehouse from Innes Park, Queensland received the Best Plain Pie Title, whilst Rolling Pin Pies & Cake from Ocean Grove, Victoria received the Gourmet Pie Title.