Perfect Pies: Over 180 Sweet and Savory Pies

by Beth Allen

Book Overview

A delicious array of over 180 recipes suitable for serving any time of the day or any season of the year. Complete with handy troubleshooting charts, Baker's Tips, over 40 piecrust recipes and over 20... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762104112
• ISBN13: 9780762104116
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Lots of classic recipes

I like that there are recipes for fruit tarts and galettes. I've tried the Pat-in-the-Pan crust for my cherry tarts and it's turned out excellent without having to chill anything. I'm sure you can find variations of this "pate sucree" online for free but having it all in a book is nice. There is a "Pick-A-Crust" Pie Wheel and several charts in the book that tells you which crust is best for which kind of sweet/savory fillings. These few pages are worth the price of the book alone. None of the recipes are overly fussy and that's what makes it appealing to me and can be done in one short session. Recipes include meat pies, country quiches, french tarts, picnic pies, chocolate cream pies, custard and lemon pies, fruit and pudding pies. Includes a small sampling of slump, crisp, pandowdy, cobbler, croustade, galette, clafouti and mincemeat.

Nice addition to any cookbook collection

Lots of really great recipes that actually work. I have tried many of the recipes in this book and all of them have turned out very well. Lots of good pictures and tips . I plan to bake my way right through this book.

Great Pictures!

I really liked this book. I think that this book is very well organized. I was also impressed with how thorough the book is. There is a graph that shows you what crusts would taste good with different types of pies, ie for a Custard or Cream Pie the crusts that would be good are a Snickerdoodle Cookie Crust or a Buttery Crust or a Cream Cheese Pastry... There are so many delicious looking pictures it is hard to decide which pie to make. The recipies are easy to follow and uses easy to find ingredients. I made the Peanut Butter Pie and the Chocolate Silk Pie. They both were really good!