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dstewart wrote:I’m making a pecan pie for Thanksgiving dinner. The challenge: pie crust.
Do you have a good, favorite pie crust? If you’ve cracked that code, please post a recipe!
A flaky crust is impossible without butter, I guess. But maybe you’ve come up with something as good or close?
dstewart wrote:I’m making a pecan pie for Thanksgiving dinner. The challenge: pie crust.
Do you have a good, favorite pie crust? If you’ve cracked that code, please post a recipe!
A flaky crust is impossible without butter, I guess. But maybe you’ve come up with something as good or close?
Lyndzie wrote:I recently used this oat and walnut crust to make an apple tart, and unfortunately can’t comment on it because I didn’t even get to try a slice, the whole thing was hobbled up in a flash! https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes ... #gs.i21ujv
michaelswarm wrote:For the past couple of years, if I wanted a pie, I just made it without crust. The only pies I baked were pumpkin.
Recently I’ve attempted crust. I did a wide search both on the Internet and Mary McDougall’s recipes. I’ve used nut-date crust, tasty but not low fat (although Mary’s crust does use 1/3 cup almonds), and a whole wheat-oat-prune crust which I found acceptable. I don’t remember where I found it. I think the prunes were a substitution of mine.
Planning to make this one again for Thanksgiving.
Low Fat Dough (wheat-oat)
Makes 2 cups dough.
From ? (Appears to be my adaptation from 1st recipe at https://www.solofoods.com/news/6-best-h ... pie-crusts.)
3/4 cup oats
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/4-1/2 cup dried plums (fat replacement, also seen applesauce)
2-3 Tbsp cold water
Options (I did not use any of these...)
- 1/4 cup sweetener (brown sugar, etc.)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder + acid
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
Blend pitted prunes blend together with water. Mix dry ingredients and prune paste into dough.
Press into pie pan. Bake 375F 8-10m until crisp. Allow to cool before filling. (I did not pre-bake, but just baked along with the pumpkin filling and it turned out ok.)
Happy Herbivore also had an interesting whole wheat-banana dough I want to try.
Lyndzie wrote:I just came across this recipe:
https://shaneandsimple.com/vegan-pumpkin-pie/
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