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HOMEMADE RECIPES use homemade)
Continued from PAGE 2 • Fresh sage, dried (leave out for
A good pie four to five days, till crunchy)
Well-Behaved Pie Crust crust starts Makes about "two big casserole
Courtesy of Susan Reid/King with flour, dishes, sometimes a small third"
Arthur Flour shortening, Preparation
Ingredients and butter. Cube bread and place on cookie
• 2 1/2 cups unbleached all-pur- sheets to dry in the oven at 200 to
pose flour Getty Images/ 250 degrees F for 15 min or so. (Be
• 3/4 tsp salt iStockphoto careful not to brown or toast it.)
•1/3 cup vegetable shortening Cook and crumble sausage, set HOLIDAY
•1/2 cup cold unsalted butter aside. Dice celery, mushrooms and
•1/2 cup plus 1 to 2 tbsp ice water onion, and sauté in butter. In a large
Makes enough for a top and bowl, mix bread chunks with sau-
bottom crust paper, fold dough over on itself three a knife. Bake according to instruc- sage and sautéed veggies. Add
Preparation or four times to bring it together. tions for the filling. heated stock gradually, tossing to
In a medium bowl, whisk to- Divide dough in half. Pat it into two distribute and form a "goo." Add
gether flour and salt. Cut in the 3/4-inch-thick disks. Roll the disk on Alice Clayton’s Family Stuffing sage and salt and pepper to taste,
shortening (with a pastry cutter) its edge, like a wheel, to smooth. Ingredients adjust other ingredients as necessary,
until it’s in lumps the size of small Wrap the dough in plastic and refrig- • 3 to 4 loaves challah or brioche and when it tastes good, transfer to
peas. Dice the butter into 1/2-inch erate for 30 minutes before rolling. bread from a local bakery casserole dishes. When the turkey
pieces, and cut into the mixture until Unwrap and place it on a piece of • 3 links Italian sausage comes out, put the stuffing in the
you have flakes of butter the size of parchment. Cut a clean, clear plastic •1 pound crimini or white button oven (at 350 or 375) for about 30 TRADITIONS
your fingernail. (Says King Arthur bag into a sheet and place over mushrooms minutes, just long enough to heat it
Flour’s Susan Reid: "This is the step dough before rolling into a flat circle •1 bunch celery, including leaves through and crisp the top. If it’s in
people have the most trouble with. the size you need. (A 9-inch pie pan •1 onion longer than that, cover with foil and
Anything that you’re nervous about needs a 13-inch circle of dough for •1 stick butter maybe add a little extra stock to keep
tends to be overstirred, overmanipu- the bottom.) Spray your pie pan • 2 to 3 large cans turkey stock (or it from getting too dry.
lated, or overhandled. More is NOT lightly; this will make getting out the
better here.") Add the water, 2 tbsp slices of pie a little easier. Peel off
at a time, mixing with a fork as you the parchment and drape the plastic- Stuffing is a
sprinkle the water into the dough. topped dough over your hand. Lay it traditional
(Err on the dry side; too much water into the pan, and peel off the plastic. side dish for
means a tough crust.) When the Make sure the dough is fitted down the holidays.
dough is just barely moist enough to into the pan, not stretched or hang-
hold together when you gently ing in midair before you add the
squeeze it, transfer it to a piece of filling. Put in filling of your choice,
parchment paper. Spread the dough cover with top-crust circle. Trim
out in a band, and look for dry spots. overhang of bottom crust to one inch Getty Images/
Use a spray bottle to lightly spritz around, then bring bottom crust up iStockphoto
any places that need it without over the top one and crimp together
adding too much water. Using the to form fluted edges. Add vents with

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