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With a diverse array of sweet and savory pie recipes out there, you'll be hard-pressed to pick just one favorite. For those who love making a pie entirely from scratch, you know the fun -– and ...

The most tedious part of baking a homemade pie from scratch is nailing that unforgiving crust. First, you have to perfect the dough itself, and then roll it out so that it's thin enough to be flaky ...

Pie crust looks like it should be the easy part of making a homemade pie. All you need to create a flaky foundation for your favorite filling is a handful of basic ingredients most home cooks already ...

It’s all about the fat and how it blends with the dry ingredients. Editor’s note: Learn to Cook is a new weekly column designed to take the mystery out of cooking. Pie crust seems so simple, but yours ...

My mother made beautiful, but inedible pie crusts, usually left languishing on dessert plates, denuded of filling which had been scooped off by wary guests. As I got older and took over more cooking ...