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Can heirloom apples be used in Thanksgiving pie?
Remembering to taste is the key to using apples in a pie to gauge their sweet or tartness. Texture is also important in determining how large to cut pieces and the use of sugar and lemon juice.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readRemembering to taste is the key to using apples in a pie to gauge their sweet or tartness. Texture is also important in determining how large to cut pieces and the use of sugar and lemon juice. Evan Kleiman reaches for brown sugar and Granny Smiths for density and tartness, and Yellow Delicious for their floral sweetness, and calls Fuji “the great utility apple.” Whole pies can be made the weekend before and baked frozen, which creates a steam that allows the crust to bubble to perfection.
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Thanksgiving FAQs, vegan sides, first celebrations, French turkeys- 0:00Remembering first Thanksgiving tastes of green beans with fried onion
- 4:00Control freak how to’s for delegating tasks on Thanksgiving
- 6:47Getting the party started with jollof rice
- 8:45Bringing Korean vegan dishes to the Thanksgiving table
- 14:22In the battle of potato salad, Bryant Terry’s vegan version wins hands down
- 17:25Substituting turkey with cauliflower, mushrooms, cabbage
- 25:23Encountering one Thanksgiving’s biggest greens for the first time
- 27:33Looking for little effort to serve pescatarians, prepare a whole boneless fish
- 30:24French lessons learned for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey
- 32:59Using fish sauce with a Thanksgiving turkey
- 36:58Cutting through the richness with acid and some greens
- 42:19Flashing back to a first Thanksgiving in Philadelphia with Anya von Bremzen
- 46:34Can heirloom apples be used in Thanksgiving pie?You’re reading this
The full episode
13 of 13Thanksgiving FAQs, vegan sides, first celebrations, French turkeys- 0:00Remembering first Thanksgiving tastes of green beans with fried onion
- 4:00Control freak how to’s for delegating tasks on Thanksgiving
- 6:47Getting the party started with jollof rice
- 8:45Bringing Korean vegan dishes to the Thanksgiving table
- 14:22In the battle of potato salad, Bryant Terry’s vegan version wins hands down
- 17:25Substituting turkey with cauliflower, mushrooms, cabbage
- 25:23Encountering one Thanksgiving’s biggest greens for the first time
- 27:33Looking for little effort to serve pescatarians, prepare a whole boneless fish
- 30:24French lessons learned for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey
- 32:59Using fish sauce with a Thanksgiving turkey
- 36:58Cutting through the richness with acid and some greens
- 42:19Flashing back to a first Thanksgiving in Philadelphia with Anya von Bremzen
- 46:34Can heirloom apples be used in Thanksgiving pie?You’re reading this