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Old 03-13-2013, 05:35 AM
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The amount of liquid was my real problem with it, so you might be OK. You stopped when you saw something was wrong. I wanted to try it to the letter to see what happened, even though it seemed wrong at the time. I wasn't totally comfortable with using the food processor, either, because I didn't really get the right texture, but it's hard to distinguish any other problems through the gluey and I might add suboptimal mess that came from all that liquid.

This is why I hate recipes.

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I always have the correct amount of water on hand, then use a food processor and when it becomes sort of wet sand like (crumby) then I stop. Flour has different absorption levels depending on the type of flour you use, so unless they specify a certain flour, then you have to adjust the recipe. If Cook's left that out then they really suck as a teaching to cook source.

I have a grudge against them, can you tell?

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Southern Lush tip: You can use white wine instead of vodka or water in a crust, mmmm. Wine.
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Old 03-13-2013, 11:26 AM
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Blood and bone are not as messy as flour and confectioner's sugar
But it's best if they come from an Englishman?
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Old 03-13-2013, 05:13 PM
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OMG people! You add the liquid by tablespoonsful when making pie crust, you don't just dump it all in at once!
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Old 03-13-2013, 05:45 PM
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THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID!

I just stopped sprinkling the liquid when I felt that the dough was set enough.

SO THERE!

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Old 03-13-2013, 06:05 PM
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I wasn't talking to you! I was talking to that bully lisarea who made glue
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Old 03-13-2013, 06:08 PM
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I always have the correct amount of water on hand, then use a food processor and when it becomes sort of wet sand like (crumby) then I stop. Flour has different absorption levels depending on the type of flour you use, so unless they specify a certain flour, then you have to adjust the recipe. If Cook's left that out then they really suck as a teaching to cook source.

I have a grudge against them, can you tell?
So do I now.

The recipe does specify the type of flour, so really there's no excuse unless it's a simple transcription error or something.

I never follow recipes for exactly this reason, but I decided I'd give it a shot, based largely on the fact that it's a CI recipe. (Christopher Kimball is a harsh and ungenerous man, and I figured I'd give it a shot following it exactly to give him a chance to be right.)

Anyways, the normal way I make pie crusts is to use a regular recipe, mostly butter with a little shortening, and replace about half of the water with vodka, and make it slightly wetter than a water only crust, but just enough to make it workable. (I am at a high altitude, so my pie crusts normally need slightly more liquid than sea level ones, so even if I measured everything and wrote it down exactly, it'd still be wrong for most people.)
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Old 03-13-2013, 08:27 PM
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From Lisarea's article:

"In simplest terms, Cook’s Illustrated focuses on preparing middlebrow American dishes at home with supermarket ingredients" and a midwestern supermarket at that, everything tastes off to me, much like Consumer Reports recommends brands we never see in the West. Kinda useful, with a huge shaker of salt.
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Old 03-14-2013, 02:51 AM
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Okay, so they're done and they are UUUUUGGGGLY.

I filled them with way too much custard and I'm not sure about the crust. I struggled mightily with making the crust cover the entire area. I'm worried because I can't tell where the crust was too thick or too thin. And I don't think I got the crust consistently and evenly thick in a single tart.

They smell good, though.



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Old 03-14-2013, 07:06 PM
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Tough competition today, I think my egg tarts are a bit too humble.



I think I might lose to either "The Wilford Brimley" or "The Mango Lassi Pie" (my favorite).

This is "The Wilford Brimley"

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I have been cruelly excluded from looking at the pictures you just poasted. Please unban me.
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All of lisa's egg tarts are coming home to roost!
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Old 03-14-2013, 09:19 PM
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REPOAST!

Tough competition today, I think my egg tarts are a bit too humble.



I think I might lose to either "The Wilford Brimley" or "The Mango Lassi Pie" (my favorite).

This is "The Wilford Brimley"

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Old 03-14-2013, 09:53 PM
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Mango lassi pie sounds good, but that Wilford Brimley looks seriously disgusting.
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The winner of the savory category was a "bell pepper and paneer pie", which was p. good.

The winner of the sweet category was a "chocolate silk pie", which I did not sample.

All the egg tarts I made got eaten, so they weren't horrible. All in all, the crust was alright. I felt that it had too much butter and it overwhelmed the flavors of the egg custard. The custard itself was probably too sugary, as well.

I might make dough one more time, just to make curry beef pastries.

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Maybe it's the Michigan in me, but I feel that should be pasties, not pastries. I thought it was a typo at first.
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Hmm, I think I only have flavored vodka left at home.
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