alright well we all know that fall is
the perfect time to bake pies and
Detroit is home to one of the best pie
baking bakeries in the country sister
pie Lisa Lewinsky is the founder of
sister pie and she is an author now with
the first sister pie cookbook and we
have it right here on our sets beautiful
graduation thank you so much thank you
the book come out the cookbook came out
on October 2nd so just over a week ago
but it was a two and a half year process
for me Wow well congratulations thank
you okay so you have pie crust here and
yeah we're going to be teaching us how
to crimp up I totally don't even know
what crimping means at this point I'm
luckier to show you so I think one of
the hardest or more scary parts about
making pie is the dough and so I always
like to show people how we do it and
explain it a little bit so this is a our
all-butter crust that's already been
rolled out and placed into a 9-inch pie
tin wait did you say all butter it's all
butter yeah so we don't use lard or
Crisco or anything so we call it all
butter dough not mad about it yeah so
the first thing you're gonna want to do
is kind of roll up the edges to prepare
for the crimping which is the decorative
edge you see on these pies so I'm gonna
kind of tightly roll you almost think of
it as twisting the dough your thumbs are
kind of moving over each other oh yeah
let's make sure they can really see that
there you go and you want to make sure
that the the ring of dough that you're
rolling is really hanging over the edge
of the tin like that okay and that's
gonna really help you prevent the crust
from falling into the tin when you then
go to crimp it so you're just rolling
this as tightly as you can just thumb
over thumb and so you've got a crust
that looks like that you can see the
edge of the turnaround we can see there
that's what I want to show you it's I
want to show you a little lip yeah you
see it on the edge of the crust so
that's what you want to look at and so
then you're going to just go like this
so two fingers and then in with the
flour interesting no you could do this
you could or what you could just go see
you yeah
and buy a pie that you made so we didn't
have to do this that's you have got many
options now so when did you start making
pies well I started making pies
professionally six years ago when I
moved back to Detroit I had been living
in New York for six years and I I wanted
to start a business and Thanksgiving
seemed like the perfect time to start it
and of course pies are what you have at
Thanksgiving so that's how that came to
be what were you doing in New York City
for six years well I was originally
moving there to pursue theater okay
yeah and I just got really distracted by
food and I ended up filming a cooking
show out of my apartment and kind of
merged my passions and then I worked in
some bakeries and really found my
calling
that's what to come back to Detroit when
she did I mean what a great time you
know Brooklyn you know kind of overhyped
overpriced you come back to Detroit just
as the Renaissance is happening she's
smart and wait you said you grew up in
Detroit I grew up in Milford oh yeah
that's where my parents live oh really
yeah honey I'm actually doing a book
signing school so tell us a little bit
about this cookbook you said it's out it
just came out in the beginning of
October yes so we rousing it right
that's great this cookbook contains all
of the favorite recipes that people come
to sister pie for so we don't really
believe in any secrets that's our
toasted marshmallow butterscotch pie
definitely a fan favorite
so there's pies there's lots of cookies
there's our savory hand pies there's
even salads in this cookbook everything
you see out here is in the cookbook so
the peanut butter cookie is the
buckwheat chocolate chip what do we have
over here whoa this is our sweep come on
in yeah come on in this is our sweet
potato coconut pie perfect for this time
of year then we have our salted maple
pie right there we have some peanut
butter paprika cookies which are
becoming really popular for people who
are baking from the book at home and
then my favorite the buckwheat chocolate
chip cookies over there which one is
that that's what one in the front yeah
it's a little sea salt on top that's
really nice I don't believe you that
they're good they're gluten-free it is
sea salt
oh yes how can people get your book they
can get it anywhere books are sold I
recommend you come to sister pie because
you can get a signed copy if you show up
there and where are you guys located
located in the West Village at the
corner of Parker and Kercheval Street
these are delicious
these are awesome thank you I love going
to your spot your savory savory pies are
made oh thank you so much yes well thank
you for joining us thank you