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Expert Tips for Perfect Pies

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    Michele Stuart shares her secrets

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Stewart just asked me in my opposed to -- it.

No what -- Thanksgiving without some pie -- today we're here to show you out how to make the perfect hi Michelle Stewart is the founder of Michelle's pies in Norwalk Connecticut and the author of this book there it is perfect pie it's a turn to that.

If you need some advice on how to do it.

Nice to see this morning Michelle makes it's some pleasure being here that we're -- about this hotline a true enough Crisco has the -- hotline and apparently they're all kinds upon their pie crises he would need to call the hotline definitely.

I can say I'm working with Chris go to work on they key hotline 187745.

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-- now let's Begin -- have any and looking for any tips to make the perfect pie crust.

You can also look at my vote for any further -- tips along the way that ice cold ingredients is the most important -- -- -- -- start with the dough ice cold ingredients.

And -- in ice cold water and cold shortening so that doesn't -- -- Most important thing and also get -- realization within the -- -- he can see here you can see.

Vegetable shortening throughout the pipe cut estimates for -- nice flaky crust when you -- -- bake off.

I also like rolling a parchment Paper which we have -- she could see that it's really easy to pick up your high crest and placed into your -- -- afterwards.

So not sticky pieces -- fall in -- actually -- you have you know nice uniform -- that'll come up go into your -- dense.

And along the way one of my favorite tricks that my grandmother taught me much who I learned from.

Is to brush here pie crust with some sort of dairy product act very heavy cream because it -- nice sleepy brown color you know that golden color that you're looking for our cities -- to make it a day at a time to put the -- -- -- yes they thought they had just make your does.

The day ahead in a -- -- -- wrap it tight and Saran -- placing your refrigerator it makes it nice and cold.

The weather outside also is really important -- determining how much money you're gonna when you making the pie crust -- OK now you want and need it to mix ups and some definitely -- -- -- our our apple mixture here which is some sugar cinnamon.

A -- not make and flower for this.

Alley I hope you're paying attention -- happen.

She's been called upon a hotline yet -- you gonna mix it with the rest break there and I put me apples into you gonna mix it up here OK -- wins.

Except you dry ingredients in place over the Apple's -- make -- up.

And then we're doing the apple cranberry.

Pilot from topping expect that does -- you weren't too intimidated to make that double crust pie -- In expressing -- -- got a brown sugar cinnamon creme topping it complaints over -- Apple's.

But don't be too intimidated feel the love for your key press the important thing that nothing says intimidate I was -- -- That's -- right size plus current economic.

Contact you get it to the cranberries.

In Africa that's apparently I was so intimidated and I think.

That's just picks it up already there weren't good you do it that's easy so -- like I said we have -- -- tapping we can just placed on top here.

Makes it a nice.

You know crunchy topping and hit it like to try your apple cramping problem but I just made.

-- you can see this I didn't I how long did you bake this -- you big for 415 for 25 for 1520 minutes and then you knock it down to 35375.

A new enemy action apples are nice and -- while -- depends too -- kind of Apple's use I prefer -- -- -- -- -- but the apple type changes as the year goes on fantastic.

Thank you so much of in the book is of course perfect pies.

I can't speak right now.

Think that's not check it out also don't forget to the pot hotline if you have any crisis by the camera out of house and thanks so much thank -- yeah who now -- -- -- -- You can definitely don't want it so I threw me off it's just -- if the -- talking thank you so much for job sorry about that that's.