Rustic meat pies with hot water pastry crusts - Ht2023/Getty Images Although us Yanks place a premium on delicate, flaky crusts that melt in your mouth, hot water crust pastry will give you a very ...

I can’t tell you how many times someone has told me that making pie terrifies them. After all, if it were difficult, we wouldn’t have the saying, “easy as pie.” All you need is flour, some kind of fat ...

Crumbly, tough pie crusts are about to be a thing of the past. “The biggest mistake home bakers tend to make is quitting before they even start, usually because they're afraid to do it wrong. But it's ...

Dear Martha: My pate brisee is never tender or flaky enough. What am I doing wrong? A: Making the ideal pate brisee, that classic melt-in-your-mouth pie crust, is a matter of temperature and technique ...

The better the crust, the better the pie, but which one is meant for the job? Let’s go over the best types of pie crust for ...

When I think of the quintessential pie, I think of the classic flaky crust. But there’s a world of fantastic crust types out there. Even within the flour-butter-liquid genre, you have everything from ...

Ann Taylor Pittman is a Senior Food Editor at Food & Wine. She is a writer, recipe developer, editor, and cookbook author with more than 26 years of experience in food media. Making a pie (and ...