Walk on the dark side - Butter Pie (and some others, too)

[housewolf]

From the today's NY Times article on pies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/dining/17pies.html?src=me&ref=general


"Pie seems to bring out the sentimental side of bakers. For Esa Yonn-Brown, the touchstone is her mother’s recipe for crust, so lumpy with butter that it would never pass inspection in a professional kitchen. At her Butter Love Bakeshop in San Francisco, it is baked to a gnarled, delicious brown with an almost bitter edge.

The pie Ms. Yonn-Brown has staked her reputation on is called Butter Pie. With its caramelized filling of butter and brown sugar, it belongs to the same gooey tradition as sugar pie, chess pie, shoofly pie and, in recent years, Ms. Tosi’s Crack Pie.

Butter Pie is the signature product of her shop, which is a bake shop in the same sense that Amazon is a bookshop: it functions online and via delivery only."

FOR THE CRUST:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
8 tablespoons (one stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into dice
1/4 cup ice water
Dried beans or rice, for baking

FOR THE FILLING:
6 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
2 cups light brown sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs1/2 cup cranberries (optional)

Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, for serving.

Here's the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/dining/17pierex3.html?ref=dining


The article also highlights a Pecan Pie
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/dining/17pierex1.html?ref=dining

and
Apple Green-Chili Pie With Cheddar Crust and Walnut Streusel
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/dining/17pierex2.html?ref=dining

You'll find pictures in the multimedia slideshow (link on the upper left side of the of the main article I linked to able, just below the Pecan Pie picture. The slideshow presents these 3 pies and 12 other tantalizing pie treats.

Enjoy!

[Lucinda]

1. Verrah dangerous!

These sound really interesting....Bookmarking this for later drooling. :)