Graham, cookie or chocolate crumb crust for cheesecakes or chiffon pies.

Crust

Butter, Lard, Shortening or Combo? - none. I’m totally intimidated by the rolling out of pie crust

Cookie or Pastry? - depends on the filling

Rolled or Pressed? - if I can make a pressed crust, I’ll make pie crust

Egg or no egg?

AP or Pastry flour?

Food processor, pastry blender, fork or fingers? - if making a pressed crust, I prefer using a food processor

Roll on flour or plastic?

Shattery flaky or really thin?

Vinegar/Vodka or nothing?

Ball or disk?

Fancy edges (twist, scallop, etc.) or plain/fork?

Top crust or Lattice/shapes?

Filling

Fruit or cream/curd/custard? one of the “Cs”

If fruit, berry, tree fruit or stone fruit? Fruit but I’m more of a cobbler fan than a pie fan; I’m not a fan of nuts

If no fruit, cream, curd, custard or other?

Meringue or whipped cream? Meringue. I really do not like whipped cream.

Ice cream, cheese, hard sauce, compote or bare? Most likely bare, but there are exceptions depending on the filling.

Tart or sweet?? Sweet. Tart hurts.

Solid bits or smooth and jammy?

Sugar or honey/molasses/sorghum?

Booze or teetotal? Depends. Booze is okay if it enhances the flavor

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)?

Served warm, room temperature or cold?

Glaze/goo or just what comes from the fruit?

If not fruit, with lumps (coconut, cocoa nibs, etc.) or smooth?

Sugar topping or not (powdered or baked on)?

Tell us your favorite pie or two? Chess pie, Lemon Icebox Pie using recipe from Eagle Brand Condensed Milk can, Chocolate Meringue Pie, Chocolate Fudge Pie, Milk Bar’s Crack Pie.

Crust

Butter, Lard, Shortening or Combo? Combo

Cookie or Pastry? Depends on the filling

Rolled or Pressed? Either, depnds on the filling

Egg or no egg? No egg

AP or Pastry flour? AP

Food processor, pastry blender, fork or fingers? Doesn't matter, but usually FP

Roll on flour or plastic? flour

Shattery flaky or really thin? Ummmm... Flaky

Vinegar/Vodka or nothing? Absolutely musy be Vodka

Ball or disk? disk

Fancy edges (twist, scallop, etc.) or plain/fork? fancy

Top crust or Lattice/shapes? Whole crust or maybe shapes

Filling

Fruit or cream/curd/custard? If it's pie, just hand it over.

If fruit, berry, tree fruit or stone fruit? All those mentioned.

If no fruit, cream, curd, custard or other? Yes

Meringue or whipped cream? Yes

Ice cream, cheese, hard sauce, compote or bare? Bare

Tart or sweet? On the sweet side, but not too

Solid bits or smooth and jammy? Either

Sugar or honey/molasses/sorghum? Sugar.... I guess

Booze or teetotal? teetotaler

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)? I'm in the leave-it-out catagory

Served warm, room temperature or cold? Room temp for fruit pies, but cool for custard, etc.

Glaze/goo or just what comes from the fruit? Comes with the fruit... unless it's fresh Strawberry Pie

If not fruit, with lumps (coconut, cocoa nibs, etc.) or smooth? A coconut pie would be strange without the actual coconut.

Sugar topping or not (powdered or baked on)? Whatever

Tell us your favorite pie or two? PIE! I love Pie! But I guess it would be hard to pass up a piece of Rhubarb Pie..... or mixed fruit... or Apple.... oh, but then there's Cherry...........

•There is one type of pie that I really don't care for and it's Pumpkin. I will eat a small piece which tons of whipped cream just to be polite. Sorry Pumkin Pie Lovers; you can have my share.

Kate

Crust..... butter and lard

Pastry

Rolled crust

All purpose flour

Fork and fingers

Roll on a plastic sheet that has measurements etc

Vinegar

Disc

Crimp with my fingers as best as I can

Top crust or make a crostata more often

Filling

Apple. Period

Crust

Butter, Lard, Shortening or Combo? Combo, usually butter and shortening, but I would use lard if DB would eat it.

Cookie or Pastry? Pastry

Rolled or Pressed? Usually rolled, unless I am making a custard pie

Egg or no egg? egg wash on top but not in the crust

AP or Pastry flour? either

Food processor, pastry blender, fork or fingers? pastry blender

Roll on flour or plastic? flour or Silpat

Shattery flaky or really thin? flaky

Vinegar/Vodka or nothing? vodka

Ball or disk? Disk - I've been doing discs instead of balls since I was 12.

Fancy edges (twist, scallop, etc.) or plain/fork? flute with fingers

Top crust or Lattice/shapes? Both, depending on filling. Lattice for cherry, top crust for apple

Filling

Fruit or cream/curd/custard? No preference, I like all of them.

If fruit, berry, tree fruit or stone fruit? Lime is my favorite, apple second

If no fruit, cream, curd, custard or other? Custard or curd

Meringue or whipped cream? Whipped cream

Ice cream, cheese, hard sauce, compote or bare? bare

Tart or sweet?? prefer in between

Solid bits or smooth and jammy? solid bits

Sugar or honey/molasses/sorghum? sugar

Booze or teetotal? Liqueurs in custard pies

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)? NO

Served warm, room temperature or cold? Usually cold

Glaze/goo or just what comes from the fruit? no fruit glaze, egg or milk only

If not fruit, with lumps (coconut, cocoa nibs, etc.) or smooth? smooth, although I put chopped hazelnuts in custard pies

Sugar topping or not (powdered or baked on)? No sugar on top - egg or milk glaze only.

I don't make as many pies as I used to because I do not have that many people to share them with anymore. The ones I make the most are lime, Bavarian Cream (which is a custard), apple, and cherry. I also make a lot of tarts with lemon curd, in case you consider those to be pies. I put fruit/berries on top of those but never an apricot glaze, as I do not like apricots. No one complains.

When someone sends me pecans, I make pecan pie, but that is not so often anymore. I guess I could buy pecans, but I was used to getting them for free, since my parents had pecan orchards.

Crust

Butter, Lard, Shortening or Combo?

Cookie or Pastry?

Rolled or Pressed?

Egg or no egg?

AP or Pastry flour?

Food processor, pastry blender, fork or fingers?

Roll on flour or plastic?

Shattery flaky or really thin?

Vinegar/Vodka or nothing?

Ball or disk?

Fancy edges (twist, scallop, etc.) or plain/fork?

Top crust or Lattice/shapes?

Filling

Fruit or cream/curd/custard?

If fruit, berry, tree fruit or stone fruit?

If no fruit, cream, curd, custard or other?

Meringue or whipped cream?

Ice cream, cheese, hard sauce, compote or bare?

Tart or sweet??

Solid bits or smooth and jammy?

Sugar or honey/molasses/sorghum?

Booze or teetotal?

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)?

Served warm, room temperature or cold?

Glaze/goo or just what comes from the fruit?

If not fruit, with lumps (coconut, cocoa nibs, etc.) or smooth?

Sugar topping or not (powdered or baked on)?

Tell us your favorite pie or two?

I like a derby pie, a nice peach pie or even a chocolate moooooose French silk pie. And of course custard and/or rhubarb in season.

It's not on the quiz but I also make a great whole wheat crust, very tasty, rolled very very thin.

Crust

All Butter

Pastry

Rolled

No egg (except for gluten free, and that only for those with real gluten issues)

AP

Food processor (or fingers if I'm doing Stella Parks)?

Roll on plastic wrap, top and bottom. Much easier to handle and move.

Really thin. I don't even like eating shattery. The Stella Parks is very flaky, but holds together.

I've tried both vinegar and vodka, and don't see a difference, so I don't use either.

Ball unless it's going to be chilled for a really long time, when I'll do disk so it warms more quickly and easily.

Fork edges, except for cream or custard pies, which is usually the annual obligatory pumpkin.

Top crust, but I'm trying to learn shapes and sculptural.

Filling

Fruit

Tree fruit

Custard--but more likely to use it, or frangipani in a tart

Meringue

Bare

Tart (flavor--low sugar and tangy)

Solid bits or solid slices of fruit

Sugar

teetotal

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)? Agree with Lars: NO

Cold

Just the juice from the fruit

If not fruit, i.e., custard/curd/cream, smooth

No sugar on the outside

Tell us your favorite pie or two? Favorite pie of all is Mom's Apple Pie, which she learned as a teen from the neighbor lady who usually didn't have much use for her. Not much sugar, but macerated for a long time, slices intact. Cinnamon and a lovely tart flavor. Usually Granny Smith combined with something like Pink Lady or Honeycrisp. Variation, put a half pint of blueberries on top of the apples.

Other favorites, both to make and eat are fresh fig pie with ww spiced crust, Lindac's rhubarb with meringue top, and blackberry if I can get the right kind of berries.

Crust

Butter, Lard, Shortening or Combo? Butter only.

Cookie or Pastry? Cookie to make a pie??? No! Pastry.

Rolled or Pressed? Rolled

Egg or no egg? Depends. Usually no egg.

AP or Pastry flour? AP

Food processor, pastry blender, fork or fingers? FP

Roll on flour or plastic? Flour

Shattery flaky or really thin? Depends on the pie.

Vinegar/Vodka or nothing?

Ball or disk?Nothing. Good butter is enough. LOTS!!! LOL

Fancy edges (twist, scallop, etc.) or plain/fork? Plain. Am not artistic!

Top crust or Lattice/shapes? Crust

Filling

Fruit or cream/curd/custard? Both

If fruit, berry, tree fruit or stone fruit? tree

If no fruit, cream, curd, custard or other?custard

Meringue or whipped cream? both LOL

Ice cream, cheese, hard sauce, compote or bare? Good pouring cream/

Tart or sweet?? sweet

Solid bits or smooth and jammy? mix of both

Sugar or honey/molasses/sorghum? Sugar

Booze or teetotal? TT. The booze is in the glass!

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)?Maybe!

Served warm, room temperature or cold? both/either

Glaze/goo or just what comes from the fruit?From the fruit

If not fruit, with lumps (coconut, cocoa nibs, etc.) or smooth?

Sugar topping or not (powdered or baked on)? Sometimes.

Islay

Favourite pies are savoury. Hot, like a steak or kidney or cold as in a wonderful pork pie, with hot water crust pastry.

Apple pie, nice and simple would be next!

Bar none, my favorite is an oatmeal crust, chocolate pudding type filling, and topped with meringue.

After that all of them. I like cherry, apple, blueberry, lemon meringue, key lime, strawberry, fudge... I could go on and on. There's a pie I make that has a cream cheese crust with chess pie filling. That's good stuff right there. Mmm.

Please enlighten me! cream cheese crust?

I try to avoid all desserts most of the time, I don't bake pies or cakes. I might make brownies once a month.

I like pie, nearly all of them. Apple is my least favorite and lemon meringue is my favorite, but I like pretty much all of them.

Butter, Lard, Shortening or Combo? Combo, but butter or lard will be acceptable.

Cookie or Pastry? Pastry, unless I'm making a crumb crust for cheesecake

Rolled or Pressed? Rolled

Egg or no egg? No egg, unless I'm using Canarybird's "never fail" crust

AP or Pastry flour? AP because I seldom have pastry flour

Food processor, pastry blender, fork or fingers? Pastry blender and fork

Roll on flour or plastic? Flour

Shattery flaky or really thin? Flaky

Vinegar/Vodka or nothing? Ice water except in the "never fail" mentioned above

Ball or disk? Disk

Fancy edges (twist, scallop, etc.) or plain/fork? Mostly fancy, sometimes plain

Top crust or Lattice/shapes? Both/either

Filling

Fruit or cream/curd/custard? Fruit is my favorite but I'll eat nearly any of them

If fruit, berry, tree fruit or stone fruit? Stone fruit like peach or cherry

If no fruit, cream, curd, custard or other?

Meringue or whipped cream? Depends on the pie

Ice cream, cheese, hard sauce, compote or bare? Bare

Tart or sweet?? right in the middle

Solid bits or smooth and jammy? Depends on the pie

Sugar or honey/molasses/sorghum? Depends on the pie

Booze or teetotal? Definitely teetotal

Hipster herbs, nuts or seeds (as accents not the main flavor)? Nope, not "hipster"

Served warm, room temperature or cold? Any

Glaze/goo or just what comes from the fruit? No goo or gelatinous substances

If not fruit, with lumps (coconut, cocoa nibs, etc.) or smooth? Both/either

Sugar topping or not (powdered or baked on)? Either

Tell us your favorite pie or two? My favorites change, right now it's lemon meringue. I really don't care for apple pie at all, or apples in general. Pear Maple is nice....

Annie