Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: S Viemeister Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: The hamburger Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:20:52 +0000 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <2ob5jjhrt5mcmab8dqd6l84cq30j68ajcp@4ax.com> <67339afa$0$1895506$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6734e1a9$0$1895507$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <9V5ZO.900$8Yrf.862@fx10.iad> <673653a6$6$1782$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jxLCYEcsbmyY3X2ukQifVwhn//2DfQAgHeEg6m01lSkBezyiY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:bJc9jrK05beWCuALtzWoGpfJZFc= sha256:4+zR0KKxBOBu0FjvXWHO5Ljry4kExFhCC94yyqV+bXc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 In-Reply-To: <673653a6$6$1782$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2400 On 14/11/2024 19:47, Michael Trew wrote: > On 11/13/2024 1:07 PM, Dave Smith wrote: >> On 2024-11-13 12:28 p.m., Michael Trew wrote: >>> On 11/13/2024 6:30 AM, BryanGSimmons wrote: >> >>> >>>> Most American pie crusts, and American baked goods in general are >>>> crap because they are full of crappy ingredients. >>> >>> I've adapted grandma's pie crust recipe to use frozen butter instead >>> of Crisco.  I've never met a decent (grocery) store bought pastry, ick. >> >> Good for you. I have never used one but I have had "home made" pies >> that were made with them.  They are, IMO, inferior to real home made >> pie dough. The worse home made pie crust is probably better than the >> best store bought. However, we have to accept the sad fact that some >> people really struggle with dough making and rolling.  It is not just >> a matter of convenience because they just can't do it.  I consider >> myself lucky to have learned how to make it and that I find it easy. > > Luckily I got the hang of it fairly easily.  I found that cold butter is > a much better texture than Crisco.  I've never tried lard, that will be > a project for some day. Try half lard, half butter.