Bake an Old-Fashioned Pie

There are times when a truly old-fashioned pie becomes a great conversation piece. You’ll find some in this Cookbook—2-Crust Lemon, Shoofly, Lemon Whey, Brown-Butter Butterscotch and Marlborough, to name a few. For the butterscotch pie (Chapter 4), you brown the butter and then add dark brown sugar. Requires close skillet watching to avoid scorching the butter, but it has its own taste that some people rave over. Certainly it’s not as foolproof as the recipe for Butterscotch Cream Pie in the same chapter, one of our own Test Kitchen specials.