— Michael Baun

I would say read up on making pie dough and follow the steps. And again, that means your ingredients are cold. The even the flour can be cold. I work quickly, so generally speaking, my flour isn't cold. If you haven't done this before, you can use an equal amount of, of vegan butter. You don't wanna use a vegan spread, it has to be a block or a, you know, a stick. Cut it into small pieces, keep it very cold and then cut it in. You know, follow the recipe for a good pie crust using vegan butter. Or find an oil-based pie crust that you like. Let your pie crust rest after you've made it. Refrigerate it when it's just in a disc form. When you've rolled it out, put it back, let it, let it chill again before you crimp it. Then you crimp it, let it chill again. And then either fill it with your chosen filling or blind bake it if you're doing a filling that is already baked, cooked or partially. And by blind baking, what I mean is you're pricking with a fork. I have something called a docker that looks like a medieval torture device, but I use a fork, make holes and then you wait the dough, the raw dough down, I crumble up a piece of parchment paper and put some beans in and bake it.