Crushed-cookie crusts and shortcrust taste great chilled, for example. Flaky pastry may taste lovely out of the oven or at room temperature, but chilling it makes it a bit firmer and can also tone ...

This is one option, but another is store-bought pastry from the freezer or the chiller. The experts I spoke to generally ...

Blind baking pie crusts should be simple: You line crimped, chilled pastry with parchment or foil, fill with dried beans to weigh it down, and bake until crisp. I’ve been making pies for years ...

Instead, you’ll first prepare the pastry dough, which is a simple combination of flour, sugar, salt, cold butter and ice water and let it chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.