vodka in the pie crust? REALLY?
Presumably, in lieu of the ice water. You could do it with any liquid, probably, and insert flavor into your crust thereby (as long as you could get the liquid to be cold).
ETA:
you need to add liquid to pie crusts to make them malleable enough to roll out.
Not that much! And really, my experience with crusts is that it's not the water content that makes the difference in the end, but the fat content and the relative temperature of that fat. Melty butter = rolling tragedy.
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My Target does not sell wine. No Target that I know of in the state sells wine; and only three Trader Joes do. I live among the Puritans, and they never let me forget it!
Take one with you, put it in the regulation quart sized bag, hope they don't notice that it's 4 ounces.
In my travels, I've had at least one X-rayer stop my bag, open it, and scrutinize my deodorant (2.9 oz) on basis merely of seeing a large solid object in the quart-bag. (I know, it's not a liquid, but when everything else goes into the quart-bag, it becomes the de-facto toiletries bag.) So, I wouldn't bank on people letting 1 oz. slide.
Well, that's a theory. Let us know how it turns out, Sue!
Oh, and the alcohol is supposed to burn off in the baking and you shouldn't notice any change in taste.
So, I wouldn't bank on people letting 1 oz. slide.
I find this really fucking annoying.
Also, just talked to my parents. They want to fly out for Christmas on December 14th. And then fly home after New Year.
... isn't there some kind of rule about how long your parents are supposed to stay with you?
... isn't there some kind of rule about how long your parents are supposed to stay with you?
If there isn't, there should be. Three weeks?!? Do you live in a palace? If not, I vote no.
OK. I did one part of the homework, but the next part is to write about how I'm awesome and then, per my notes, "take it up one level of awesomeness," and I just can't do it tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
Shit shit shit shit shit.
There's a major clusterfuck with the computers at work. I'll have to go into work later tonight.
Do you live in a palace? If not, I vote no.
Well, there's a good chance they'll be staying with my sister, as she has more room, but it's just stressful, frankly. They stayed with me for ten days in June and I was fit to be tied by day 3. Much of it has to do with my mother, who has multiple health issues and yet will not eat healthy, despite repeated directives from her doctors about whole grains, cutting back on dairy and fats, and so forth.
And now my sister's got a new very stressful job, with a lot of extra hours, so she's not going to be jazzed about having them stay for very long. I did tell them that three weeks may be too much, but they need to talk to her. Because I'm all about passing the buck.
There's a major clusterfuck with the computers at work. I'll have to go into work later tonight.
Oh, ugh. That definitely sucks.
Well, there's a good chance they'll be staying with my sister, as she has more room, but it's just stressful, frankly.
It sounds like it! Man, I love my parents and generally have a good time with my family, but I'm still coming back from Thanksgiving on Saturday because four days in a row is PLENTY.
I really want to try that CI pie crust. It's pretty close to my standby crust, proportionally (I do some amount of flour, half that of whatever fat I'm using and half that of water) though I think it's got sugar and I don't use any at all and all of that putting some in th efoood processor and then doing something else sounded awfully complicated. I do have a consistent problem with rolling out, so if the vodka helps with that I will be thrilled.
