Pie Station

          Pies are a very common American dessert. Pies are very easy to make. There are two kinds of pie dough’s. There is the flaky pie dough and the mealy pie dough. Flaky pie dough is fat cut into flour until it resembles the size of peas with salt and water added. Mealy pie dough is fat cut into flour until it resembles coarse cornmeal with salt and water added. I learnt that letting the pie shells rest for half an hour to an hour before baking stops the pie crust from shrinking. This is because when forming the pie dough the gluten gets worked a lot. I did some research about pies and I found a lot of interesting facts. Apple pie a la mode means apple pie served with ice cream. Pies used to be made with meat inside first. The invention of fruit filled pies came later. Very early Americans had a take-off crust for pies. They first baked the apples with the crust and then they took off the top crust and added sugar and sometimes added spices. Next they put on the top crust and the apple pie was ready to serve.