Pie-in-a-Sack?

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Was reading a recipe written by an old-timer and came across a pie baking method that sounded intriguing.

The whole, assembled, unbaked pie was placed in a brown paper grocery sack and placed in a preheated oven for an hour. Everything else was done completely as we're all accustomed to doing it.

There was no clear explanation in the recipe, but evidently this was the cook's method of dealing w/ that age-old issue of the fluted edge of the crust getting too brown.

Has anyone else heard of this before? I thought it was an ingenius idea!

[Mama Mangia]

Us old-timers have heard of it and many of us have done it. It makes your crust nice and flaky without over-browning. It worked much better "back in the good ol' days" when brown paper bags WEREN'T recycled!

many dishes are still "made in the sack"
(get your mind out of the gutter.................)

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Originally Posted by Mama Mangia

many dishes are still "made in the sack"
(get your mind out of the gutter.................)

Yeah like Bard Pitt, and Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many such wonderful dishes! Hee-hee

By the way I have heard of baking your Thanksgiving turkey in a brown paper sack!

[Mama Mangia]

sure as heck beats cooking fish in the dishwasher! LOL

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Or Hobo dinners cooked under the hood of the car!

[Mama Mangia]

Living here at tailgate central - they are designing all sorts of grills and cookers - and one guy did make a grill/cooker out of the front end of a car! Really interesting.

[jglass]

I saw them bake pie in a sack on an episode of Throw down.