Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations with Pie by Patty Pinner

  • Flaky pie crust

    Flaky pie crust

    from Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations with Pie Sweety Pies by Patty Pinner

    • Categories: Pies, tarts & pastries; Quick / easy; Dessert; American
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; vegetable shortening; heavy cream
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  • Flaky pie crust

    • ashallen on July 30, 2021

      I made the mistake of ignoring the instructions for cutting the fat into the flour here and instead did what I do with my "usual" pie dough (in food processor, thoroughly process ~1/2 fat with dry ingredients, then pulse in remaining fat until pea-size). This resulted in a pie dough so tender that it couldn't be lifted in one piece into the pie plate. Ooops. I ended up patching the various pieces together in the plate. Fortunately all worked out OK in the end - the custard pie I used it for didn't leak and the crust both held together when sliced and was very tender.

  • Mama's peach custard pie

    • ashallen on July 30, 2021

      I really liked the mix of brown sugar, peach, spice, and custard flavors in this pie, though we would have liked it to have been a bit sweeter and maybe a bit saltier, both easily done next time. Flavorful peaches make a difference here! I was concerned the custard might have a mealy texture given all the flour in the filling but it was smooth and creamy. There wasn't a ton of custard, but what there was balanced out the tartness of the peaches nicely. Book recipe calls for a 9-inch pie plate and online recipe calls for a 9-inch deep dish pie plate. I used the standard 9.5-inch Pyrex pie plate with the scalloped rim and that worked well. Pie was done (175F in center) a bit early (~40 minutes). Baked on bottom oven shelf to make sure bottom baked through. Put crust shield on crust rim after 20 minutes but it still over-browned and turned bitter so I'll add it earlier next time. Leftovers kept well for a couple days.

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  • ISBN 10 1561588482
  • ISBN 13 9781561588480
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  • Published Nov 01 2007
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher The Taunton Press
  • Imprint Taunton Press Inc

Publishers Text

"Women sharpen women. I'm convinced that you can learn a lot about a woman based on what she feeds herself and the people she loves; a woman's recipes--especially her prized recipes--are a revelation of who the woman is: what she thinks, how she behaves, what she values, and how she lives her life."


This is a collection of 70 such pie recipes, gathered from the women in author Patty Pinner's life--family, friends, women who are part of her own personal history. What distinguishes this book is its utterly beguiling storytelling--each recipe is accompanied by a story told on the woman known for making the pie, from Sister Baby's Buttermilk Pie to Miss Hatfield and Her Jelly Pies. It also filled with the truths handed down by our mothers (or that we wish had been handed down by our mothers) like: "An unhappy husband will ask for toasted snow" and "You don't want a man who is jealous of nothing or everything." This is a cookbook that's about love, life, family, friendship, and community as much as it is about the recipes.

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