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Monday, June 30, 2008 at 10:14AM
From the latest issue of Cooks Illustrated. The secret is using a grated apple to add extra pectin and get the filling to gel up nicely but still taste like fresh berries without turning it into glupe. I think it worked, but we were supposed to wait 4 hours for the pie to cool properly, and we could only muster 45 minutes. So it was still warm and runny when we had our first piece, but this morning it looks legitimately sliceable.
There's also vodka in the crust which they didn't explain at all. Very mysterious and Russian.
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That pie looks delicious! I recently made this same crust, and it turned out amazingly well. And just in case you're curious, here's how the vodka was explained to me: because it's odorless and tasteless it can be added to the crust to give it enough liquid to make it workable, but because of its high alcohol content most of it evaporates in the oven leaving the crust flaky not soggy. Pretty cool, huh?
ah-ha! science can be so tasty.