Take a look at how flakey this pie crust is. And my husband made this pie all by himself!
Fall time brings a heightened awareness of the luscious fruits available to us. And fruit means pie making. Just last night I had two people come up to me while at a gathering and exclaimed with pure delight, “That pie was so good!” I had given a couple one of my famous frozen pies from out of my freezer, ready for baking. I love to pull those out of my freezer and have a pie ready to share or gift to a dear friend. Another individual had made her first pie ever from scratch, using our wonderful recipes and the secret ingredients that are hidden in each luscious recipe. She said her husband got upset each time he would find a small sliver of it missing for fear the peach pie would disappear on him.
This type of greeting or experience isn’t too uncommon for me. After teaching a class on pie making, I would have people come up to me in stores and claim that they had never made a more flakey and wonderful pie. One man said that his family had never had so much fun baking together. A new tradition was established in their home. A woman who had made pies more than half her life said she loves this new recipe and way of freezing pies for advanced preparation for an event or holiday coming up. Comments like these encouraged us to publish our recipes. I had created a ‘pictorial demonstration’ that provides a visual step-by-step process that you can use to learn to make delicious homemade pies from scratch. When my husband, who is not one confident in the kitchen, proof read my instructions, his comment was, “I think I can do that.” He was right and he did make a wonderfully delicious Mile High Apple Pie all by himself. Now it is your turn. Just try it.
Let me share with you how we put to use all the wonderful apples that seem to be falling off the trees in this season. You might have an excess of apples and want to save some for pies a few months from now. This is the perfect recipe:
This type of greeting or experience isn’t too uncommon for me. After teaching a class on pie making, I would have people come up to me in stores and claim that they had never made a more flakey and wonderful pie. One man said that his family had never had so much fun baking together. A new tradition was established in their home. A woman who had made pies more than half her life said she loves this new recipe and way of freezing pies for advanced preparation for an event or holiday coming up. Comments like these encouraged us to publish our recipes. I had created a ‘pictorial demonstration’ that provides a visual step-by-step process that you can use to learn to make delicious homemade pies from scratch. When my husband, who is not one confident in the kitchen, proof read my instructions, his comment was, “I think I can do that.” He was right and he did make a wonderfully delicious Mile High Apple Pie all by himself. Now it is your turn. Just try it.
Let me share with you how we put to use all the wonderful apples that seem to be falling off the trees in this season. You might have an excess of apples and want to save some for pies a few months from now. This is the perfect recipe:
Amazing Apple Slices—Ready for Anything
14 cups peeled, cored, and sliced (Jonathans, Granny, or other cooking apples)
2 cups sugar
1 Tbs cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
½ tsp cloves
½ cup THICKGEL or corn starch
2 Tbs Fruit Fresh or lemon juice
Place apple slices in gallon size freezer re-sealable bag.
Mix dry ingredients together then pour it over the apples in the bag.
Add the lemon juice.
Rotate the sealed bag so the spices and juice are well distributed over all the apples. Set out on the counter and rotate several times.
Put the apples in the freezer until ready for use in an apple crisp, apple pudding, or apple pie.
14 cups peeled, cored, and sliced (Jonathans, Granny, or other cooking apples)
2 cups sugar
1 Tbs cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
½ tsp cloves
½ cup THICKGEL or corn starch
2 Tbs Fruit Fresh or lemon juice
Place apple slices in gallon size freezer re-sealable bag.
Mix dry ingredients together then pour it over the apples in the bag.
Add the lemon juice.
Rotate the sealed bag so the spices and juice are well distributed over all the apples. Set out on the counter and rotate several times.
Put the apples in the freezer until ready for use in an apple crisp, apple pudding, or apple pie.
This recipe and many others are found in our book, "Pies: You Can Do It Too --Trade Secrets of the Pie Lady" by Joyce Clifton
3 comments:
This is great Aunt Joice! I love it!
Oh, Mom! Those are GREAT pictures of Dad...he really is venturing out of his office:) into the kitchen. We love Dad's new found confidence in the kitchen over the past several years. Dad, the pie is BEAUTIFUL!!! Mile high indeed!
As a grateful recipient of one of Joyce's pies, I can truly say that they are amazingly delicious!
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