The one magical ratio and secret tricks you need to know to throw together a delicious pie with any kind of fruit you have on hand, combining as you please. 

This is the first in my new series called Tuesday Tips – short and sweet posts with (hopefully!) helpful nuggets of baking and cooking wisdom. Have you ever had the super sad experience of paper-thin, oily cookies, when you’d kill for a toothsome, chewy-middled, crisp edged chocolate chip cookie just like your best friend Beth’s mom makes? I’ve known some pretty great bakers for whom flat cookies are all that’s ever produced, even with famous recipes.