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It’s all about the fat and how it blends with the dry ingredients. Editor’s note: Learn to Cook is a new weekly column designed to take the mystery out of cooking. Pie crust seems so simple, but yours ...

Pie crust looks like it should be the easy part of making a homemade pie. All you need to create a flaky foundation for your favorite filling is a handful of basic ingredients most home cooks already ...

My mother made beautiful, but inedible pie crusts, usually left languishing on dessert plates, denuded of filling which had been scooped off by wary guests. As I got older and took over more cooking ...