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RE: Stotts Craft Bakery – A Tasteem Review
I was reading about the lost art of home made pie making yesterday. They used to be a staple when I was growing up - sweet and savoury - good way of getting some extra calories into a large family and I love the taste of crumbly shortcrust pastry.
I've always been scared of pies that aren't topped with mashed veggies of some kind...interesting that I'd call them a pie ... is cottage pie technically a pie?
I've always been scared of pastry for some reason. Should really just give it a go.
Pastry is easy (although I learned how to do it when I was about seven or eight, so I'm probably biased), you just need a light touch - the complete opposite to making bread - keep everything very cool and don't use too much water. Here's my post about making pastry and crumble.