When it comes to baking, those classic recipes that existed long before you (or even your parents) were born always seem to circle back. This is especially true with Depression-era recipes like wacky cake and peanut butter bread, which are both inexpensive and easy — and not to mention delicious.
If you're really looking for a recipe that costs pennies to make and seemingly alchemizes out of nothing, however, you need to try water pie.
What Is Water Pie?
Water pie is a sweet pie made with just six ingredients: water, flour, sugar, vanilla extract, butter, and a pie crust.
Making a pie that requires a mere six ingredients may seem like a fun hack today, but during the Great Depression, water pie was simply a dessert that reflected the circ*mstances for many Americans. Since water pie doesn't require milk or eggs, it allowed people going through hard times to enjoy something sweet without using up valuable and expensive ingredients.
Like other recipes that originated during the Great Depression, water pie stretches a handful of ingredients by turning them into something substantial. These dishes were one of the few foods you could make with limited resources you had. Water pie managed to stick around after the Depression ended, thanks to its low cost and simplicity — a little nostalgia never hurts, either.
Water pie's flavor profile is best described as simply sweet. Since it doesn't contain a large amount of ingredients, it isn't overbearing or excessively saccharine.
Water pie has a gelatinous texture, so the filling resembles what you'd find in a chess pie. You can switch up your water pie's flavor by using a different-flavored extract, such as lemon, almond, or coconut, or replacing it with apple cider vinegar for a slight apple pie-like taste. You could also use Sprite instead of water.
The pie is made by adding water mixed with sugar, flour and butter, and sometimes some spice such as vanilla or cinnamon, to a pie crust. The starch in the flour makes the mixture set and thicken, thus acquiring a custard-like consistency. Soft drinks such as Sprite may be used in place of water.
Depression cake is a type of cake that was commonly made during the Great Depression. The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain.
Cold water is added to pie dough to keep fats solid while warm water is used to activate yeast. Viscosity and consistency: addition of water affects dough and batter viscosity. Consistency accomplished with the addition of water that defines whether its a batter or a dough.
Water is the enemy of a fruit-filled pie because it make your pie mushy and your crusts soggy. To combat having a watery pie, mix apples with the other filling ingredients (sweetener, cinnamon, salt, etc.) for 30 minutes. This pulls a lot of moisture from the fruit.
Celery soup mixed with tuna fish and mashed potatoes.A salad of corned beef, gelatin and canned peas.Baked onion stuffed with peanut butter. Those are just some of the recipes Americans turned to during the Great Depression, when many families struggled to eat enough nutritious food.
Its no surprise key lime is the favorite in Florida. This pie originated in Key West, Florida during the 19th century. In Key West, you can buy a chocolate-dipped slice of key lime pie on a stick. Other Southern states have the meringue-topped pie as the favorite as well.
Chocolate biscuit cake is Queen Elizabeth's favorite cake ~ she would take a small slice every day with her tea, until the cake was finished, and then she'd start on a fresh one!
Ashure (Noah's Pudding) is thought to be the oldest dessert in the world, first made by Noah after his fabled landfall at Mt Ararat. It is a delightful mix of dried fruit, nuts, grains and beans (yes, beans!) made in Turkey and all over the Middle East.
It's a simple mixture of egg and liquid called an egg wash. Aside from adding a nice glimmer, they are workhorses in the pastry world, and can be used to seal edges, add shine, add a crisper crust, or enhance the golden color of baked goods.
The mixture of water and flour forming a dough is a heterogeneous mixture that has the properties of a suspension. A suspension is a mixture in which the solute particles are larger in size and thus can be seen with the naked eye.
Hot water crust is a type of pastry used for savoury pies, such as pork pies, game pies and, more rarely, steak and kidney pies. Hot water crust is traditionally used for producing hand-made pies.
Well hydrated skin allows the skin to maintain healthy skin cell rejuvenation and collagen production. This helps heal acne and reduce inflammation from acne pimples and acne scars on the skin. Increasing water intake to at least 2 liters per day also helps to lower blood sugar levels.
Though the science is sketchy, a few professional pie bakers swear that it improves the texture of the crust, and they wouldn't dream of making pie dough without it. (Others swear by similarly acidic ingredients like lemon juice.) The acidic properties of vinegar inhibit gluten, some will say.
Hula Pie is made with Kimo's favorite macadamia nut ice cream piled high on a chocolate cookie crust and topped with chocolate fudge, whipped cream, and more macadamia nuts. It is sized for sharing, but rarely goes unfinished! Come on in and enjoy a slice.
To make the sturdy hot water pastry crust you need hot water, a fat (butter, lard), and flour. Nothing to complicated, just a change in the elasticity and structure compared to cold short crust pastry. It is important to mold the dough while its still warm.
Since it was invented it has become one of the most popular desserts in the world probably. Crack Pie is made of an oatmeal cookie crust filled with rich buttery pudding made mostly out of sugar, butter, cream and egg yolks. After baking it receives a golden top that is especially attractive and tempting.
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