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Can We Bake a Cherry Pie

Pies are not my forte. When I was a teaching assistant for a food science lab in grad school, we had one lab that I nicknamed the Salute to Crisco. Students made crusts with different fats (oil, butter, lard, and shortening), and then judged them on flakiness. The shortening crusts won hands down, courtesy of …

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