Other Delicious Homemade Pie Ingredients

In this section are recipes for two great ways to top pies, chilled ones in particular—meringue and whipped cream—plus ingredients that will come in handy for making pies throughout the book. I’m a stickler for using high-quality local dairy, but the option isn’t always available, like in evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. Making these yourself can take a little time, but it allows you to have the utmost control of their quality—and save some money to boot. The mainstream organic brands can be quite expensive.