My 92 year old mother, who had taken a lot of home ec classes in school, always had some pie crumbs on hand when we were growing up, but she didn't have a name for them. She kept them in the cupboard in an old shortening can rather than in the freezer, so there was not wait at all to mix and roll out the crust. I'm sure that's not recommended, but we're all still alive to tell about it. I guess we ate enough pie that they were never stored for too long.

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