Pie

In the pie unit we learned how to make different forms of pie. We made a free form pie with apple filling called a galette, and then we made a pumpkin pie in a tin. We used the same dough for both in order to make the pie crust. For the crust we used the biscuit method of cutting the butter into the flour and adding the wet ingredients after. A new ingredient we used in this unit was Crisco, an animal fat. A challenge I was faced in this unit was creating my galette. This was because my dough was continuously ripping when I was wrapping it around the apple filling. Even though it did not look as appetizing as the pumpkin pie, the apple galette was much tastier than the pumpkin pie. I enjoyed it enough that I used the recipe for the filling, and interpreted it a little in order to make an apple crisp.
-Meg M