Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie

by Ken Haedrich

Overview

The most comprehensive and straightforward book ever written on the topic, Pie is a complete guide to how easy it can be to make perfectly praiseworthy pies. Every recipe has been tested for success and features advice and tips specifically for that pie. Chapters include: "Berry Good Pies," "Rich, Sweet, and Simple: Chess, Buttermilk, and Other Custard Pies," "Personal Pies, Turnovers, and Other Little Pie Treats," and of course, the foundation chapter, "Pie Pastries and Crumb Crusts."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558322547
Publisher:	Harvard Common Press, The
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Ken Haedrich is the author of the definitive book on pie, Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie, which Melissa Clark in the New York Times called "a masterful pastry tome" and which Cooking light magazine named one of the 100 best cookbooks of the past 25 years. He has written 12 other cookbooks, including Home for the Holidays, which won an International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award, Dinner Pies, Country Baking, and Apple Pie. He has been a regular contributor to Bon Appetit, Better Homes and Gardens, and Eating Well magazines and he currently serves as Dean of The Pie Academy (thepieacademy.com), an online destination for pie-making wisdom and lore. A native of New Jersey and a former Navy Seabee, he lives with his wife in Wilmington, North Carolina.