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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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We'll say it: late summer is peak pie season. And August's Bake Club recipe - for Shilpa's cardamom-laced Peach-Blueberry Crumb Pie - provides an excellent reason to turn your oven on and crank up the AC. In this episode, Shilpa and Jesse commiserate about how frustrating pie crust seemed (at least until Shilpa developed her Actually Perfect Pie Crust), and why pre-cooking your fruit is the secret to tender, crispy crust and perfectly-set filling. They'll also answer listener questions and introduce Bake Clubbers to pie expert Erin Jeanne McDowell, author of The Book on Pie.
You can find all the BA Bake Club recipes, including this one, here.
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0:00.0 | I'm Shilpa Oskokrovich, and I'm Jesse Shepcheck. |
0:12.0 | We're both senior test kitchen editors at Bon Appetit. |
0:14.6 | And this is BA Bake Club. |
0:17.6 | Bake club is Bon Appetit's book club, but for baking. |
0:21.1 | We're creating the nerdiest and most wholesome corner of the baking internet. |
0:25.8 | Every month, we publish a recipe on Bon Appetit.com |
0:28.9 | that introduces a baking concept we think you should know. |
0:33.5 | And then you'll go bake, send us any questions you have or pictures of your finished creations. |
0:38.2 | And we'll get together here on the podcast to talk about the recipe. |
0:42.1 | So the September Bake Club recipe, which is my banana pudding peri breast, is live now on bonapetit.com. |
0:49.9 | And we'll tell you a bit about it at the end of the episode. |
0:52.4 | But today, we're going to be talking about Shilpa's excellent late summer peach and blueberry pie. |
0:58.9 | Shilpa, can you tell us a little bit about this pie? |
1:01.6 | Listen, first I think we need to establish that summer is actually the time that most of us should be baking. |
1:08.7 | Because there's so much, exactly. |
1:10.3 | There's so much like produce. All of the fruit is out there. I know we normally think of baking season as fall and winter, which I get it. You know, it's cold outside and most of us want to be at home, you know, baking cozy things. But summer has so much fruit. And so we felt it was really appropriate to feature a fruit pie in August. And I know that |
1:28.4 | was asking a lot of readers, but Jesse, I mean, it was lovely to see so many people made this pie. |
1:33.5 | No, so many people did. They looked beautiful. It looked great. Way more successful than any of |
1:38.3 | my very early attempts at pie many years ago. Okay, what can I say about the pie? The pie is essentially three |
1:45.4 | components. It has a pie crust, a very flaky pie crust, a recipe that I actually developed a couple |
1:51.4 | years ago, a recipe that I'm very proud of and which has gone on to be very popular with a lot of |
1:56.5 | colleagues and readers. Then there's a filling, which is a peach and blueberry filling, |
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