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Quotes About Crust

You must pre-bake the bottom crust of a custard pie, but this is a tricky step in the pie-making process. Without the presence of filling the crust can slump down into the plate as it bakes, necessitating pie weights to help keep its shape. Then, once you remove the weights to blind bake the crust, the bottom puffs.
~ Claire Saffitz
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
~ Antony Gormley
Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.
~ Lawrence Millman
of the river, somewhat removed from Rombaden, are some forty or fifty medium to large estates belonging to the wealthy and upper crust of the area.
~ Leon Uris
These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Like the terrestrial crust of the earth / which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul / is a miracle of mutual pressures.
~ Anne Carson
Bourbon Pecan Pie Ingredients     For pie crust:   2 cups cake flour ¼ cup pecans, toasted, cooled, and finely ground 1 teaspoon brown sugar ½ teaspoon salt cup chilled vegetable shortening
~ Fern Michaels
Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.
~ Susan Minot
But curses are not real. Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Isn't it?
~ Anthony Doerr
Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.
~ Zazie Beetz
I'm a thin-crust pizza guy. I respect people who like thick crust, but in my view it's mostly bread.
~ Mike Leach
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pizza is definitely my favorite food. I usually go with a pepperoni and sausage mix. But I love the New York-style thin crust.
~ Jimmer Fredette
The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was exerted on it, to eject it from the solar system. But its mantle and core may leak due to inertia, causing the planet to disintegrate.
~ Liu Cixin
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust.
~ John Keats
A pastry crust is arguably the least healthy (and most time-consuming) part of a quiche. Replacing pastry with richly browned chunks of sweet potato creates a similar buttery contrast and a satisfying bite.
~ Chris Morocco
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.
~ Peggy Noonan
I think my biggest heartbreak was when I just couldn't get an American cheese cake/pie with a saltine cracker crust and green tomato sorbet to work out in my favor.
~ Christina Tosi
standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust.
~ Ernest Cline
I typically like Sicilian pizza.
~ Roy Choi
Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.
~ Susan Sontag
Pies are so much fun to make—and so simple! All it takes to make a tender, flaky crust is the right amount of vegetable shortening, cut into flour with a sprinkle of cold water, and just a pinch of salt. Cherries have the right sweet-to-tart taste—and are also a good source of poison! Just crush the pits or stems. There you'll find prussic acid, also known as hydrogen cyanide: easy to sprinkle into both the filling and the crust. How sweet it is!
~ Josie Brown