Handheld pies

By Sarah Billingsley

Subjects: Pastry, Cooking, COOKING / Courses & Dishes / Pies, Pies

Description: "What s better than small treats? Eating with your hands! This enticing cookbook delivers on both counts in one adorable package. Pie-lovers everywhere will be thrilled to find their favorite recipes plus fabulous new creations. Savory pies also make an appearance: grab a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Pie on the way out the door in the morning! Ideal for beginning and seasoned bakers alike (a chapter on crusts offers all the instruction anyone needs to make delicious, flaky pastry with ease!), Handheld Pies proves that good things definitely come in small packages"-- "40 recipes for little sweet and savory pies that can be eaten out of hand (turnover-like freeform pies, fried pies, pies in tiny jars, homemade pop tarts, and pies made with a pie press/mold). Organized by crust, filling, and technique to encourage mixing and matching, plenty of suggested variations and combinations will make this feel rich in recipes, a la Whoopie Pies. Interspersed throughout the recipes are 8 to 10 profiles of great hand-held pie makers from across North America and the UK to ground a whimsical subject in pie personalities"--