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Cooking & Baking

Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts) Sun Oct 6, 2019, 12:32 PM Oct 2019

I have a pie pastry question. PBS is airing a show about pies. They showed one [View all]

baker who was preparing crust for cream pies. It showed him spreading a substance around the inside of the pastry lined pie tin before he pricked the crust and baked it, but I missed what he was using.

It looked like it might have been some sort of fat, lard perhaps. He said he did it for cream pies to keep the crust from getting soggy. Has anyone heard of this?

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I have a pie pastry question. PBS is airing a show about pies. They showed one [View all] Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 OP

there is already fat in the dough Kali Oct 2019 #1

Not an egg wash. He spread it around with his hand, it was white and Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 #3

interesting Kali Oct 2019 #4

Will be over for pie TEB Oct 2019 #6

Methinks it's egg wash. . .ie. beaten egg or egg white with water DinahMoeHum Oct 2019 #2

I think the show may be mindem Oct 2019 #5

It's a one hour show on Create channel, "A Few Good Pie Places". Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 #7

if it was lard or shortening, that sounds AWFUL. Grasswire2 Oct 2019 #8

It's egg white dixiegrrrrl Oct 2019 #9

I thought about that, but he applied it with his hand and it kept its shape. Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 #10

Perhaps he beat the egg white like one would for a meringue? WePurrsevere Oct 2019 #12

You are right. That's what it was. Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 #15

how did you find it out? dixiegrrrrl Oct 2019 #17

Reply #13 has a link to the program. They never said it was egg white, Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 #19

But the best part of the pie is the bottom dough soaked with the filling! dawg day Oct 2019 #11

Looks like a beaten egg white to me. Link to show on PBS... WePurrsevere Oct 2019 #13

Thanks. I had missed that part. It does look like a soft meringue. Arkansas Granny Oct 2019 #14

Why is the crust soggy? dem in texas Oct 2019 #16

in a restaurant, you cant have your pie falling apart. mopinko Oct 2019 #18