First Prize Pies
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1 journaler for this copy...
Pie is my favourite treat, and I'd like to get better at making it.
The technique information in this book is invaluable. In particular, the book taught me a lot about making, shaping and baking a standard pastry crust. The ingredient tips and step-by-step instructions in the book are great.
Unfortunately, I tried a few of the recipes and they were inconsistent. For example, the classic butter crust is VERY buttery- to the point where the finished crust is quite wet, and by the time I finished baking it there were pools of melted butter dribbled all over my oven and my oven mitts. It makes a flaky crust, but it's a bit greasy. The pumpkin spice pie is so intensely flavoured of molasses and ginger that it was hard to taste the pumpkin. I guess I like more moderate, traditionally-flavoured pies! The coconut cream pie was very good, but it's probably the only recipe from this book that I will make again. In the end, for all the pretty pictures and inventive flavour combinations in this book, though, I think I prefer my mother's old standby recipes!
I also find the book to be poorly organized. For example, the instructions for blind-baking a butter crust are quite a few pages ahead of the actual butter crust recipe. Furthermore, the recipes are organized by month rather than alphabetically or by type (cream/custard, fruit etc). Personally, I don't consider chocolate lavender pie to be specific to the month of March (I harvest my lavender in September), or peanut butter pretzel pie to be suited only to August, and this system makes it hard to find things in the book.
I had planned to keep this in my permanent collection, so I made some notes and highlights in it- but now I think I might pass it on after all. I hope the next reader doesn't mind my scribbles- and I hope they love the pies!
The technique information in this book is invaluable. In particular, the book taught me a lot about making, shaping and baking a standard pastry crust. The ingredient tips and step-by-step instructions in the book are great.
Unfortunately, I tried a few of the recipes and they were inconsistent. For example, the classic butter crust is VERY buttery- to the point where the finished crust is quite wet, and by the time I finished baking it there were pools of melted butter dribbled all over my oven and my oven mitts. It makes a flaky crust, but it's a bit greasy. The pumpkin spice pie is so intensely flavoured of molasses and ginger that it was hard to taste the pumpkin. I guess I like more moderate, traditionally-flavoured pies! The coconut cream pie was very good, but it's probably the only recipe from this book that I will make again. In the end, for all the pretty pictures and inventive flavour combinations in this book, though, I think I prefer my mother's old standby recipes!
I also find the book to be poorly organized. For example, the instructions for blind-baking a butter crust are quite a few pages ahead of the actual butter crust recipe. Furthermore, the recipes are organized by month rather than alphabetically or by type (cream/custard, fruit etc). Personally, I don't consider chocolate lavender pie to be specific to the month of March (I harvest my lavender in September), or peanut butter pretzel pie to be suited only to August, and this system makes it hard to find things in the book.
I had planned to keep this in my permanent collection, so I made some notes and highlights in it- but now I think I might pass it on after all. I hope the next reader doesn't mind my scribbles- and I hope they love the pies!
Journal Entry 2 by 
ifyouknew
at CBC/Calgary Reads Annual Book Sale in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, April 28, 2018
ifyouknew at CBC/Calgary Reads Annual Book Sale in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, April 28, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (5/11/2018 UTC) at CBC/Calgary Reads Annual Book Sale in Calgary, Alberta Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be donated to the CBC/Calgary Reads Annual Book Sale. Will be available for sale, along with over 100,000 other secondhand books, May 11-13, 2018 at the Calgary Curling Club. Proceeds to a great cause- the promotion of children’s literacy in Calgary!
