Posted on 02/14/2022 2:03:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
- This viral recipe might be the weirdest, grossest, most bizarre thing we've ever tried on this show. Water pie is a 100-year-old recipe that claims you can make an entire pie out of little more than water, flour, and sugar. But can this 1920s recipe really live up to our modern pie standards? To find out, we're going to try this crazy thing.
So this water pie actually goes back to the Great Depression, where supposedly, home chefs didn't have enough ingredients to make it out of anything else. But it's been blowing up on TikTok lately, thanks to creators like Dylan Hollis who have been really trying the recipe in the modern era. And this is actually really crazy because I did some digging into my own history, and as it turns out, I'm related to the founder of water pie, James "Hydration" Thompson. And my great, great, great, grandfather actually invented this thing after toiling away and reworking the recipe for years, and years, and years.
So let's see if I can do the family name proud and give this thing a go. So first, we're going to preheat our oven to 400 degrees, and toss a deep dish pie crust into our pie pan. Then were going to pour 1 and 1/2 cups of water right into the pie crust, and then we're going to add a whole cup of sugar mixed with 4 tablespoons of flour, and sprinkle it right on top of the water until it turns into this weird, watery, gooey mixture thing. After that, we're going to add 5 tablespoons of butter, chopped up, and just drop it right on top of the thing. Then shove this bad boy into the oven and get ready to cook it
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Depression era recipe
I made this when I was around 12. Yes, it was depressing.
How do you make a pie crust without shortening?
This isn’t that different from Shoofly Pie.
People from that era didn’t have a lot that’s for sure
Same. 😛
My grandpa used to make that. It was gross.
“How do you make a pie crust without shortening?”
Ingredients:
INGREDIENTS
Nutrition
1 1⁄2
cups flour
1⁄4
teaspoon salt
1⁄4
cup cold butter
1⁄4
cup vegetable shortening
4 -5
tablespoons cold water
9 1⁄2
inches deep dish pie plate
It is basically a custard filling without eggs.
anyone ever try vinegar pie?
It’s been around a long time. I prefer a french silk pie :)
On Green Acres, Hot Water soup!
Is that like sock soup?
I also know this recipe as “mock apple pie.” But did they really have pre-made pie crusts in the 1920s...? (I was pretty much drunk for that entire decade so I don’t remember.)
Shoofly Pie was always one of my favorites.
For most pies, you can make an easy pie crust without shortening:
PAT-IN-THE-PAN PIE CRUST
1-1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
Mix ingredients in bowl.
Then sprinkle with 2 tablespoons water (one tablespoon at a time) while tossing ingredients with fork.
Form pastry into a ball. Then press it into a pie pan.
Spoiler alert: The pie isn’t just water.
Mock apple pie for a mock appetite.
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