Any Home Bakers Here?

[DigMyChicks]

Nice Pie!

I baked sourdough french bread, a cheese cake and am now blind baking a pie shell for lemon pie...I got the baking bug bad!

Thanks Ron! Sounds like you have the baking bug

what does blind baking mean? I could eat all three of those you're making, yum!

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron! Sounds like you have the baking bug

what does blind baking mean? I could eat all three of those you're making, yum!

Blind baking is when you bake the pie crust with nothing in it until it is golden brown. After that, you fill it with the hot lemon filling.

I used a recipe for the pie crust that has about half of the liquid as vodka. It makes a pie dough that is easy to work with but will still be flaky when cooked, because the vodka evaporates out.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I use the basic pie crust recipe out of my Betty Crocker cookbook, but I use 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter. I comes out flavorful and flaky - I have gotten many compliments on it.

 

[ronott1]

I use the basic pie crust recipe out of my Betty Crocker cookbook, but I use 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter. I comes out flavorful and flaky - I have gotten many compliments on it.

That is a good pie crust too!

 

[CuzChickens]

I use the basic pie crust recipe out of my Betty Crocker cookbook, but I use 1/2 shortening and 1/2 butter.  I comes out flavorful and flaky - I have gotten many compliments on it.

I LOVE the Betty Crocker cookbook! That is the only place I get my recipes for cornbread, pie crusts, and alot of cookies.

 

[ronott1]

I LOVE the Betty Crocker cookbook! That is the only place I get my recipes for cornbread, pie crusts, and alot of cookies.

I have a used one that is from a 1960s publication--Recipes were better back then.

 

[CuzChickens]

I have a used one that is from a 1960s publication--Recipes were better back then.

Same here! I love the recipes! Everybody tells me I should get a newer publication, but I love my cookbook!

 

[ronott1]

Same here! I love the recipes! Everybody tells me I should get a newer publication, but I love my cookbook!

The new recipes have messed up the salt and oil amounts. If you compare the recipes you will see the differences between publications.

Also, many of the recipes on the web have not been tested and they do not work. I ran into one last week that prepared the custard wrong. After tempering and adding the egg yolks, you are supposed to heat the custard back up so that it thickens. The recipe had you add the egg yolks after tempering and then pour it into the pie shell. It never did set up and at the time I had a nagging thought that something was wrong.

 

[CuzChickens]

The new recipes have messed up the salt and oil amounts. If you compare the recipes you will see the differences between publications.

Also,  many of the recipes on the web have not been tested and they do not work. I ran into one last week that prepared the custard wrong. After tempering and adding the egg yolks, you are supposed to heat the custard back up so that it thickens. The recipe had you add the egg yolks after tempering and then pour it into the pie shell. It never did set up and at the time I had a nagging thought that something was wrong.

ahhhhh! It is sooo annoying when you follow a recipe, use your time and ingredients only for it to flop. So annoying. I only use online recipes if they have gotten great reviews.

 

[appps]

ahhhhh! It is sooo annoying when you follow a recipe, use your time and ingredients only for it to flop. So annoying. I only use online recipes if they have gotten great reviews.

Yeah agree. Problem often is though when you read feedback on blogs it will be 50 people saying it looks great definatly going to try, nobody actually commenting after they have actually made it though.