Why Do Some Bakers Add Vinegar to Their Pie Dough? Is it the secret ingredient that produces the flakiest, most tender crust? The acidic properties of vinegar inhibit gluten, some will say. This ...

Vinegar isn”t just for pickling cucumbers or beets, dressing a salad, washing windows and deodorizing your garbage disposal. It”s also for making a tender, flaky pie crust. Vinegar? You mean VANILLA?

It's always a good day when I get a handwritten personal letter. It's even better when that letter comes from a reader sharing food memories or treasured family recipes. I received such a letter ...

Jean Pederson of Sioux Falls, S.D., remembers making a vinegar pie for her grandfather when she was in the eighth grade. She lost the recipe and says she would like to have it for old times’ sake. Her ...

Amy Dawson of Lost Creek Farm first came upon Old Fashioned Vinegar Pie in a handed-down collection of family recipes. This recipe in particular was clipped from the pages of a local newspaper in the ...

It’s the dead of winter, so it seems like a good time to discuss “desperation pie.” That’s a term I learned about earlier this year as I perused the fetching new “The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie: Recipes ...

Years ago, all ranch work was done on horseback. One day long ago when I was just a lad of 8 or 9, in the course of searching for strayed cattle I came to Aunt Polly's house at midafternoon. She lived ...

Editor’s Note: O Pie O will close permanently on August 7, 2022, according to a post on the bakery’s Instagram. Its sister restaurant, Heyday, remains open in East Walnut Hills and will continue to ...