Also, when preparing a pie with a lattice or double crust, I find it helpful to place the lined and filled pie in the refrigerator while rolling out the top crust.
In the passage from "Dead Souls," which was published in 1843, Peter Petrovich Petukh, who is short and fat, as round as a watermelon (the stomach, in Gogol, is the body's noblest part), is telling a cook how to prepare a four-cornered pie for lunch.
Main Course: Luxurious Cottage Pie: Paired with Innes & Gunn Scottish Porter Ale I once spent three hours preparing a Cottage Pie, liberally adding in so many ingredients that the end result was far too OTT even for the chef.
Three guys feverishly prepared pie after pie, while a fourth fellow folded boxes.
If you're lucky, the kitchen can prepare a roasted wood pigeon casserole or game bird pie - freshly caught.
She prepared a chocolate-crumb pie crust, mixing in freeze-dried raspberries, filled it with a raspberry-vinegar custard and topped the whole thing with an elderflower-liqueur-scented whipped cream — a Wayne Thiebaud painting in the making.
Waves lapped at the dock and a couple of cats slept in corners as Ari and Matt baked a pumpkin pie, prepared a kale-and-minestra soup, and roasted pine nuts for an arugula salad.
To prepare, Brolin made a pie every day for three months, giving them to the cast and crew, teamsters, whoever was hungry.
In order to seem like we made a pie, my mom had to prepare several pie crusts in advance, as well as a whole cooked pie to swap out at the end for the raw one which we wouldn't actually have time to bake.
