I got the cookbook "Baking Yesteryear" by B. Dylan Hollis. I have loved his TikToks - well, YouTube vids I suppose lol but they were brought over from TikTok. I am very excited to try all of the recipes lol.
The other day, Z came grocery shopping with me. Peaches were on sale, so she asked if we could make a peach pie. Heck yes kiddo, I'm down!
So today we got to it! Instead of using my usual crust recipe, I decided to try the one in Baking Yesteryear. Here is what Dylan says about it:
"There will be pies in this book (I sure hope so) that call for a prepared pastry as part of their recipe. And while I feel that this buttery, flaky pastry deserves the right to be featured multiple times alongside them, its recipe will instead wait for you here with eagerness."
So here is the recipe.
Single crust for 9-inch pie
1 1/3 cups (185g) all-purpose flour
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup (115g) butter or vegetable shortening, cold and cubed
4-6 tbsp cold water
Double crust for 9-inch pie
2 1/3 cups (325g) all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup (225g) butter or vegetable shortening, cold and cubed
6-8 tbsp cold water
There is a whole method of doing this in the book, but I only half followed it. So here's what I did:
Measure flour and salt into a food processor. Add half the butter, and process until uniform texture. Add the rest of the butter and pulse until crumbly. Add the lower amount of water, and pulse to help bring the dough together. Dough should come together and be sticky, but don't over pulse it. If it's not coming together, add another tbsp of the water. Mine needed 5 tbsp.
Take out dough onto a lightly floured surface, and shape into a flat disc. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in fridge for at least half an hour. Mine sat for a couple hours while Z and I went to play at the park lol.
Once chilled, roll out dough on floured surface to fit into your pie pan, with enough to slightly hang over the edge. Trim if needed, and crimp the edges with a fork.
If you need to blind bake the shell, preheat the oven to 375°F. Use a fork to poke holes all around the sides and bottom of the crust, so that trapped air doesn't make it bubble up and bake out of shape. Crumple up some parchment paper, then line your pie crust with it and fill with pie weights (or dried beans, which is what I use lol). Bake for 15 minutes, then take out parchment and weights to bake for another 15-20 minutes, until the bottom of the crust is golden brown. Mine took about 20.
That's it! It's pretty easy and quick with a food processor, and this crust is so flaky and delicious! Adrielle loved it even more than my usual crust I make ☺️