Baking a pie crust shell

Now if that isn't a blog post title to rev your engine and start your day off with a bang, I don't know what is! Therefore, I won't keep you waiting in suspense any longer. Often when making a pie with a cold filling (which, of course, is especially nice in the summer time), the recipe calls for a baked pie shell. Recently a friend commented she couldn't turn out a decent looking baked pie shell for love nor money. I told her it was many years before I managed to do the same. It wasn't until…

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