Win some, lose some
My pumpkin pie yesterday - the first one I ever made - turned out perfectly! (win) In addition to my traditional cooking chaos, I forgot to halve the salt when I halved the crust recipe for the pie, but luckily I tasted the dough and realized my mistake in time .. and started over on the crust! Then, after I’d put the (revised) pie crust and the pumpkin filling in the pie form and into the oven, I watched in dismay as the crust started to fall down from the sides of the pan into the filling! Just as I was beginning to think I would end up with something that amounted to a pumpkin pie (soup) dough bowl, the crust started to stiffen and I carefully pushed it all back up against the sides of the pan. (This is a perfect example of why American pie pans have sloped, not vertical, sides.) To accompany the pie at our Thanksgiving dinner, (more…)