piemaking

Dessert pastry creation

Piemaking is the craft or activity of making pies—preparing crusts, filling them, and baking.

The term covers both the domestic tradition of home baking and professional pastry work: She learned piemaking from her grandmother, a piemaking competition at the county fair.

Also spelled as two words: pie making.

crust

flour

Milled grain powder

  • butterSolid fat from cream
  • doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
  • rollingTurning over repeatedly

shortening · lard · flaky · tender · chilling · crimping · prebake · dock · lattice · edge

technique

rolling

Turning over repeatedly

crimping · venting · latticing · braiding · brushing · docking · prebaking · resting · folding · trimming

tradition

Thanksgiving

Autumn gratitude holiday

recipe · gathering · celebration · feast · homemade · scratch · artisanal · grandmother · generational · holiday

filling

apple

Crisp tree fruit

pecan · custard · lemon · peach · raspberry · strawberry · rhubarb · chocolate · banana · coconut

tools

rolling-pin

Kitchen tool for flattening dough

oven · timer · parchment · apron

sweet

shoofly

Molasses-based crumb pie

sugar

savory

potpie

Pastry-topped meat stew

samosa · pierogi · spanakopita · calzone

Opposites
baked good type

piemakingcake decorating

Adorning baked confections

breadmaking · cookie baking · cakemaking

culinary method

piemakingpie eating

Consuming filled pastry

grilling · sautéing · frying · sous vide · boiling

Family

make, pie, maker, making, makes, pies, piecrust, piemaker

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G