Today I baked the worst dried fruit pie, ever!
I couldn't roll the crust out properly. Instead of wax paper, my husband had purchased "baking paper" (which isn't parchment paper, and isn't wax paper, and shreds like the dickens). I was out of plastic wrap, and my counters are too old and nasty to roll on without protection. I used the baking paper and ended up with shreds of the paper stuck INTO the crust. I picked out most of them but I suspect I left some behind for the baking.
When I put the pie in the oven to blind bake the crust, the crust started sliding down into the pan (probably because it was too thick and rolled out poorly).
I ended up putting the chopped/soaked dried fruits into the pan while the crust was still soft, and not putting on a top crust. In order to bake it enough for the crust to be baked I had to kind of over-cook the filling. But, since there was no top at least I could stir the filling around so nothing actually burned.
Because I was so stressed over the crust, I forgot to double-check the sugar I used for the filling and it ended up too sour. Not inedible or anything...but...not the way I would have wanted it to taste.
All in all, a discouraging day.
