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 Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz 
Jul 15  # 1 of 11
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!
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 Posted By: Mama Mangia 
Jul 15  # 2 of 11
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.................)
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Jul 15  # 3 of 11
Quote Mama Mangia wrote:
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!
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 Posted By: Mama Mangia 
Jul 15  # 4 of 11
sure as heck beats cooking fish in the dishwasher! LOL
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Jul 15  # 5 of 11
Or Hobo dinners cooked under the hood of the car!:D