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In reply to the discussion: What cooking or baking mistakes have you made? [View all]yellowdogintexas
(22,865 posts)44. Volcano Pie. I was a fairly experience baker when I first got my own kitchen. Well I decided to make an Angel Pie
which was from a cookbook of recipes from an old landmark restaurant near My Old Kentucky Home
The crust was made with mirangue spread all over the inside of the pie plate, then baked. The filling was kind of a cold chocolate mousse.
So I whipped it all up and put the crust in the oven, and set it at 500 degrees. Smoke started coming out of the oven vent on my stove; when I opened the oven the pie crust was black and smoking. To this day I would swear in court that recipe had 500 as the temp for that pie. The correct temp is 200 and it's left in the oven for 45 minutes.
The pie has been called "volcano pie" since then, and I have never attempted to make it again.
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