Pie'd Pipers Lead Way to Better Baking ; Recipes Feature Pecan Topping, Cookie Crusts

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It's the season for cooking your way through the bushels of apples you gathered at the orchard. That means dusting off those heirloom apple pie recipes the ones passed down from grandmas, great-aunts and neighbors, recycled for generations of amateur bakers.

But when my grandmother, Ruth, tries to pass along her favorite pie recipe, she gets funny looks from family and friends.

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Pie'd Pipers Lead Way to Better Baking ; Recipes Feature Pecan Topping, Cookie Crusts

" 'You can't cook a pie in a paper bag,' that's what they tell me," she said. "I didn't believe it myself at first."

But it's true. Her pie, a pretty simple one with a basic crumb topping, meets the heat inside your everyday grocery bag. The bag helps trap steam from the apples, keeping th...

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