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["Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

Bev,
Whatever you decide to do with the crust, besure you  brush the bottom crust 
with beaten egg whites before you fill the pies, else the bottom crust will 
get gooey because the filling juice will soak in to it before it is done 
baking.  You don't need to beat them into a froth, just enough to be sure it 
is well broken up without "snot" (sorry, I don't know what you call it when 
it comes up in long strings when you pick a fork through it, but you know 
what I mean).  Banquet dough reminds me of a "oil type" pie crust.

Good luck,
Wen

> tonitime AT juno.com wrote:
> > Hi Bev, Cooking is one of our fortes here, so glad to give my
> > opinion. AND i love anything in pie crust. No - it will not be crispy
> > and flaky like those poot pies ( as my kids called 'em).  It would be
> > soft and doughy. If you don't have time for pie crust or are
> > pie-crust-impaired, I'd pick up some of those boxes of instant, add
> > water crust to use.  They are about a buck. and will probably make at
> > least three poot pies, which you can freeze, filled, and unbaked.
> >
> > The layers of butter/shortening/lard particles in the crust are what
> > make it wondrous.  Biscuit dough won't do that marvelous thing.
>
> Okay, the Banquet pot pies are not really flaky like a regular pie crust
> should be, and since the butter is what makes it sumptious, and there is
> no butter in the biscuit dough, only SR flour, milk, salt, and
> shortening, I guess I am not following why the biscuit dough won't work,
> especially if rolled out flat and worked to keep it from rising too
> much.  I know when you make biscuits, the idea is not to handle/work the
> dough too much or it won't rise properly, but if that same dough is
> thawed for a crust, then working it should keep it rather flat, no?  It
> won't be flaky, but the Banquet pies aren't really flaky either...
>
> > What a great wife you are!
>
> No, I'm afraid not.  I'm just trying to make something he will like and
> eat with gusto as opposed to something that he will eat to keep from
> starving...lol..if it had been up to me, we would have a nice elk stew. :)
>
> Bev
>
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