Instructor: Susan Bowden, Master Food Preserver
Join Susan Bowden, a professional baker with 45 years experience, in rediscovering the lost art of pie-making! Walk through the process of making successful pie crust from scratch. Learn how to mix and handle pastry with the ease that comes of hands-on experience. Choose from fresh fall apples or handmade peach pie filling to fill your pie, and watch a demonstration on canning your own homemade pie filling using Clear-Jel, a special thickener that holds up to water bath canning. You’ll be assembling a whole pie to take home and bake in your oven, as well as baking a single pie crust to later fill with cream filling. Receive a booklet of tried-and-true recipes, tips (does vodka really make a better pie crust?) and enjoy samples, too! With Thanksgiving just around the corner, this is a great time to master a new skill and surprise your family with fragrant and delicious home baked pies for the holidays. Yum!
Pie making list of items to bring (beg or borrow)
· 3 qt and 1 qt mixing bowls, set of dry measuring cups & spoons
· pastry blender or 2 table knives, pastry sheet, waxed paper or x-lg cutting board
· rolling pin, two standard 9” pie pans - please make sure your pie pans really are 9”
· a fork, a peeler, a paring knife, and apron.
