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In honour of this year’s very special Pi Day (hey – these numbers won’t line up again for 400 more years!) – here’s one of my favorite recipes for pie crust (from the detective Nero Wolfe’s exquisite chef Fritz Brenner, or more likely their author, Rex Stout.) 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup butter (cold.  the colder the better.) Ice water 1.  Sift flour into a mixing bowl, and make a well in the center 2.  Put egg yolks, sugar, salt, and butter in small chunks into the well 3.…