Few things make people as nervous in the kitchen as making pastry dough. This is understandable because it’s easy to get wrong, and you can end up with something tough or soggy, instead of a light and ...

A perfect pie crust is so much more than the sum of its parts: flour, butter, water. How could these three basic ingredients combine to reach such tender, flaky, heavenly heights in your favorite pies ...

Our mothers and grandmothers might have mixed their pie crust with their hands, but it’s high time to get our fingers out of the pie. For most purposes, finger warmth simply is too much for the pastry ...