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The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen

Posted by Nigella on the 19th March 2015
Image of Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen's Salted Honey Pie
Photo by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen

Anyone who follows me on instagram (@nigellalawson) will know just how obsessed I am with the Brooklyn pie shop, Four & Twenty Blackbirds (@birdsblack). I love everything about it: I love the fact that it's sisters who are behind it; I love their aesthetic; I love their approach; and, above all, I love their pies. And I say that as someone who's eaten the original creations, and cooked from their book. I will just give you the names of some of the pies I could have chosen here: Rhubarb Custard Pie; Salted Caramel Apple Pie; Blushing Apple Pie; Black Bottom Oatmeal Pie. You get my drift? I just want to list every single pie in this book! I've chosen the Salty Honey Pie, because that is where my long-distance love affair with them started, and because it is just so darn good, I couldn't not...

Excerpted from the book The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen. © 2013 by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen.
Reprinted by permission of Grand Central Life and Style. All rights reserved — and, although an American title, the book is available on British Amazon.

Book cover of The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book
Photo by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen

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Image of Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen's Salted Honey Pie
Photo by Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen
Salted Honey Pie
By Emily Elsen and Melissa Elsen
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