The Hoosier Mama Pie Company's Guide to Crafting the Perfect Pie

Luther-sMom: Easy to follow, well written, and best of all exceptional results. LOVE this bakery in Evanston and now I am so happy to be able to get similar results at home.

United States on Aug 22, 2023

Rick: Great price on the book and sum great recipes

United States on Jul 17, 2023

TomC SEA: I feel like I’m a pretty good pie baker and have been doing it for years, but this book upped my game a lot with some great new recipes and techniques. Yeah this Baker is the real deal and this book my new go-to for baking pies!

United States on Jun 15, 2022

Anonymous: I am not familiar with the authors' pie shop, not have I tested their pies. But in my mission to always bake kick*ss pies for every occasion, I bought their book.

My pie baking has improved by leaps and bounds since I got this book. This cookbook has so many good tips. It has great explanations for each step in each recipe, and how it affects the final product.

I have celiac disease, so I make my own crusts or modify recipes to be gluten free. I've made great use of this book's instructions for pie fillings, and my pie crusts are also looking and tasting better after learning some techniques from this book. Even if I can't follow the recipes exactly, I'm still learning a lot of food science and baking techniques from reading and cooking my way through it.

When I need to know what to add to a particular fruit to make it stand out, I look up what the Hoosier mama version calls for - maybe a pinch of salt, a squeeze of lemon, a particular spice or a dash of almond extract - and find that it really brings out the flavor.

This is one of the most useful cookbooks I own and I highly recommend it.

United States on Apr 27, 2022

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Canada on Feb 09, 2022

Magpie: Purchased for my wife. She loves this book and the recipes are easily to follow though some terms are American but one can easily work this out. She also loves the title and it's now part of her collection of cookery books.

United Kingdom on Oct 13, 2021

Customer: I appreciated the preview of book contents and therefore the book was exactly as I had anticipated.

Canada on Sep 15, 2021

diana: Our daughter is an expert pie maker and we wanted a book that can give her new ideas. She will love it.

Canada on Nov 06, 2020

tami: I was already making pies before I picked up this book, and I bought it thinking I could finesse my crust and get good ideas for fillings. It reads wonderfully. The stories about pie history, farmers markets, and the precise seasonality of fruits are highly entertaining and written by an author who obviously loves what she does. But the recipes, being designed by a perfectionist pastry chef, are far too complicated! For example, I made a buttermilk pie from her recipe, and one step instructed me to add one third of whipped egg whites, and immediately after, the remaining two thirds. No explanation why it wouldn't just all go in at once. Maybe I flubbed one of these half steps that could have put my pie over the top, but I made a similar pie (buttermilk chess pie) from an online recipe that was much better . I am also not a fan of the base recipes being scattered throughout the book. I made the Dutch Apple Pie that turned out far too watery--later figuring out that I should have used her subrecipe to cook the apples first. The book is contradictory in tone. Multiple times, Haney waxes nostalgia about how pie was the universal dessert in the repertoire of every American housewife,...

United States on Oct 28, 2017

Danièle: I loved this book so much that I bought a second one for my mother! The pie crust recipe worked like a charm and I even used the leftover pie dough scraps from my freezer to make another scrumptious pie crust a few weeks later.

This book is full of great recipes and great stories of a little pie shop. And the photos really helped me understand the recipe techniques. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Canada on Feb 18, 2014