Drink Grandma’s Cherry Pie. Photo
courtesy 1800 Tequila.

You can have your pie and drink it, too.

The mixologists at 1800 Tequila have created drink versions for Caramel Apple Pie, Grandma’s Cherry Pie and Pumpkin Pie.

We grew up in a pie-baking household; Mom is a great baker who loves to bake pies. She rolled out the dough, placed it in a Pyrex pie plate and added the filling. Then we got to pinch the edges. We savored the aroma of a baking pie; and counted the minutes after it was removed from the oven, when it would be cool enough to cut.

While pie-baking seems a snap to us, a recent national survey by Crisco (which Mom loves in her pie crusts) revealed that:

• 59% of Americans say that pie is the hardest dessert to prepare from scratch
• Nearly two-thirds (65%) agree that making the crust is the hardest part of baking a pie from scratch
• Only 12% say choosing a recipe is the hardest part of preparing the classic dessert

What’s your favorite pie? Bake it today!
Photo courtesy American Egg Board.

• Try making this apple pie recipe from Crisco. We love how the pie crust is rimmed with little stars, cut with a cookie cutter.
• Here’s a video that shows how easy it is to make a pie crust.

If you have questions, call the experts at The Crisco Pie Hotline, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET. The phone number is by calling 1.877.FOR PIE TIPS (877-367-7438).

Check out the different types of pie in our beautiful Pie & Pastry Glossary.

If you want to eliminate the potential of an overdone crust edge, get a silicon pie shield.

Pepita-crusted halibut with blood orange
sauce. Photo courtesy McCormick. Get
the recipe.

Hopefully our Tip Of The Day has inspired you to load up on blood oranges.

Here are some delectable blood orange recipes:

Cocktails

Salads & Mains
Add blood orange segments to salads, and reserve the juice for vinaigrettes and sauces.

Desserts

BLOOD ORANGE PRODUCTS
We absolutely love the blood orange-infused olive oil from Sonoma Farm and Stella Cadente. No matter where you use it, it adds magic.

Robert Lambert makes a delectable blood orange syrup, easy to use in anything from tea to pound cake to sorbet; as well as a marvelous marmalade of blood oranges.

Have a bloody good time digging in to these bloody-orange-good foods.