The Magic of Making Pie Crust and a Rustic Grape Tart

You need twinkling fingers to make a flaky pie crust successfully.
It should be a scintillating experience. Not like the physical immersion in the magic of making bread.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• pastry
• pie-crust
• flour
• shortening
• rolling=pin
• bread
• grape
• tart
• dessert
• baking

[3344utube]

My grandma made the best cookies,breds,pies,donuts.She lived on a 270 year old family farm in new england .She used lard and she live into her 90's and my grandpa lived to 102. No hart disease from the lard!

The really funny thing was when I found out what kind of lard she used, I almost stopped eating her baked foods...almost.

OMG it was Chicken fat cooked down to lard! Chicken lard to make cookies !

[anukittta]

you look like a witch in her secret quarters

or rather

a druid

a lovely witch anyway

[Marihani]

Love that baking bowl! Is that also handed down from your mom? One of the things in that top cupboard, maybe?

The warmth of your hands will "melt" the fat in the crust. If people have a stone counter to work on, that would also be good, since the stone is usually cooler than the room.

Great tip about the folding!

Love that bowl you had the grapes in as well! We have ripe grapes in the garden now, but they are very small, so not sure this would work with them.

Tried that with custard on?

[iluvloulou]

the sleeves are such a great idea! I really enjoy your thoughts, wit and style. thank you!

[yescandles]

As wonderfully simple as my Southern Mother's baking skills were, she was flawless in my eyes...and tummy. Thinking back, I do not recall ever having anything made with grapes.

Thank you for sharing.

[kenrg]

You make it all look so easy.

[posaune16]

Really, Julia's recipe isn't that different from yours... of course, Julia insists on butter ;-)

[GreatGig1]

I'm from a long line of shortening cooks too. Wow, I use my grandma's pastry cutter too! Probably a lot of us use our grandma's cooking things! I wish I had my grandma's cast iron skillet though! It had been around a LONG time and was perfectly seasoned. Oops...back on the subject. Less is more when it comes to pie crust. :-) That looked interesting. I might have to try this when it get a little cooler here to bake...:-)

[jenzeppelin]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you for sharing.

[YeOldeHeretic]

magical as always.

i've yet to venture into making pie crust, but you certainly inspire me to try it one day.

~aymi