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Guest Post: Perfect Pie Crust

September 21st, 2009 at 10:43am Under Guest Posts+ Guest Recipes+ Special Occasion

The perfect pie dough is characteristically an oxymoron – flaky, crispy, layers compress under your tooth and melt into a tender, buttery bite. So how can pie dough be flaky and tender at the same time? Through a pretty neat series of chemical reactions that occur during the mixing process, and steam produced during baking. Hold on, don’t go anywhere — it sounds fancy and complicated, but it’s really as easy as, well, pie.

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