tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68951973434116779852024-03-21T23:35:17.041-05:00Pie on Sunday.....saving my family from a life without pie, one week at a time.Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-13137508958742359922016-09-05T10:06:00.000-05:002017-05-10T20:23:52.028-05:00Raspberry-Rhubarb Pie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since winning a first place ribbon at the 2016 Iowa State Fair with this raspberry-rhubarb pie, I have had several requests to make it. I made three more just last week. Yet, I have had no opportunities to take any decent photos because I have not been able to cut into a single one I made. This is the only photo I have. Not the greatest photo, but the ribbon makes up for that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You might be wondering, why raspberry rhubarb?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few years ago I spent a morning enjoying pie and coffee with a few of my cousins at the <a href="http://www.coffeecupcafe.com/" target="_blank">Coffee Cup Cafe</a> in Sully, Iowa. They are well-known for their homemade pies, having received numerous accolades including USA Today's Top 10 Places in the U.S. for Pie, as well as being featured in Jane and Michael Stern's "Road Food" and "500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late", among others. Even Lance Armstrong stopped there for a slice of coconut cream pie during RAGBRAI in 2006.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm always hesitant to order restaurant pie, even at small-town cafes where the pie should be homemade, even if they are known for it, because I have been disappointed on more than one occasion. Not even a hint of disappointment was to be found at the Coffee Cup. The pie there was spot-on, homemade delicious. My cousins and I each ordered two slices so we could taste-test several varieties. I can't even remember what my other slice was, because I was absolutely smitten with the raspberry-rhubarb. So smitten I went home to try to recreate it myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My first attempt was in the ballpark. I decided I didn't get it sweet enough and would add more sugar on the next attempt. Except that second attempt didn't come until this year's state fair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the two-crust fruit class, a class in which I had yet to take first place, I wanted a fruit combination that might catch the judge's attention -- and I remembered the raspberry-rhubarb I had made only once. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So I bumped up the sugar to 1 1/2 cups and reached heavenly perfection. This pie is so yummy, and if you have the best homegrown rhubarb, it melts in your mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now most people serve pie with ice cream. At my house, most people have to request ice cream if they want it with their pie because I do not. So if you are an a la mode kind of girl or guy, be my guest. But this version of a rhubarb pie, with a sidekick of raspberry, doesn't need it (in my opinion). If it does, you could always bump up the sugar a bit more. Either way, I think you will enjoy this pie as much as anyone. But if you're going to write a blog post about it, take a picture before it's all gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Line the pie plate with the bottom crust. In a bowl,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> c</span>ombine
sugar, cornstarch, tapioca, and salt. Pour over raspberries and rhubarb and
combine gently. Let stand 15 minutes. Transfer to crust. Dot the top of
filling with butter. Adjust top crust and crimp edges; apply decorative crust
pieces if desired. Brush crust with milk; sprinkle with sparkling sugar. Cover
edges with foil to prevent over-browning. Bake on middle rack at 400° for 10
minutes, reduce heat to 350° and bake another 45-50 minutes or until crust is
lightly browned and filling is bubbly in center. Cool on wire rack.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><i>I shared this recipe on </i></b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i><a href="http://www.mizhelenscountrycottage.com/2017/05/full-plate-thursday-5-11-17-327.html" style="color: #ccb666; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Full-Plate Thursday</a> at <a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/" style="color: #ccb666; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Miz Helen's Country Cottage</a>.</i></b><br />
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-1568925788009538052016-08-21T23:43:00.002-05:002016-09-15T11:07:38.510-05:00A Black Raspberry Pie Story<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's been a while. Like, more than two-and-a-half-years-a-while. So long, I can't even remember how to use Blogger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What would have me coming back to write a pie blog after all this time? Why, the greatest of state fairs, the Iowa State Fair! (Really, it is. I have a t-shirt that says so.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today was the last day of the 2016 state fair, and I'm feeling a little sad, as I always do once the fair is over for the year. To cheer myself up, I turned to pie. Because pie fixes everything. (Really, it does. I have another t-shirt that says so.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The pie I turned to was black raspberry, the one I entered in the fair yesterday. It won 3rd place in the division "A Pie Story", sponsored and judged by Kate Lebo, author of <a href="https://katelebo.com/pie-school-the-cookbook/" target="_blank">Pie School</a> and <a href="https://katelebo.com/a-commonplace-book-of-pie/" target="_blank">A Commonplace Book of Pie</a>. For the contest, entrants were required to bake a pie and write a story (fiction or nonfiction) somehow related to the pie. My third place finish garnered a personally autographed copy of <u>Pie School</u>, as well as an Oxo pie plate and Le Creuset pie bird, both compliments of <a href="http://www.mykitchencollage.com/" target="_blank">Kitchen Collage</a> in Des Moines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been three years since I entered pies in the state fair, but doing so has me excited at the <u>prospect</u> (keyword) of continuing to write Pie on Sunday. So to celebrate this grand "re-opening", I am sharing with you the recipe and the story that landed another ribbon at the fair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Black raspberry. The pie I was called to. You know,
the one that whispers ever so gently, “YOU, <u>_(insert name)_</u>, will be a
pie maker after all!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My confirmation call came eleven years ago in a
not-so-gentle shout. It was a hot, steamy July morning – it’s always those hot summer
days, isn’t it? Just a few years prior, I had discovered a large patch of wild
black raspberries along the trail in the woods near my house, where my yellow
lab and I took our daily morning walk. Thinking I had found a special treasure,
each morning I would carefully collect a small container of berries and freeze
them until I had enough for a pie. But on this day, there was one slight
difference…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was hot, and pregnant, and did I mention hot?
Rather than dress in long pants and long sleeves to protect myself from the
berry brambles and potential poison ivy as I otherwise did, I instead braved
the elements in shorts and a t-shirt. When I came out of the berry patch, I was
quite pleased with myself, for I had a substantial gathering of delicious,
stain-your-fingers-purple black raspberries. The next morning, however, I
realized I had something else: Itching. Lots of it. All over the lower half of
my legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I soon recalled that I had gone into those berry
brambles unprotected. I was certain I must have come into contact with poison
ivy, so after a quick internet search on what to do, I ran to the drug store
and bought out their supply of calamine lotion and Zanifel, that abrasive wash
that is supposed to scrub out the oil the poison ivy leaves behind. Wow, was
that painful! Especially after it didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The next day I presented my legs to my doctor, who announced,
“My dear, that is not from poison ivy. Those are chigger bites – and the worst
case I have ever seen.” Those nasty little mites were making railroad tracks
all over the lower half of my legs at this point – not to mention causing the
most intense itching and torture I had ever experienced – so my doctor prescribed
an insecticidal cream to take care of them. But that didn’t work either! As the
railroad tracks began climbing farther and farther up my legs, I wondered what
other parts of my body were in danger. So once again I pleaded with my doctor
to make it stop, and he prescribed a steroid pack, which finally did the trick. Chiggers be gone!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have never had another experience quite like that
one, the summer the chiggers turned my legs into a roadmap. Mostly because I
made sure of it, by never picking black raspberries (or anything else, for that
matter) in the wild again. In fact, my husband, having just suffered his own
miserable experience with a hot and tortured pregnant woman, planted a black
raspberry patch in our backyard immediately the next year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that, my friends, is how I was called, for better or worse, to black
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mixing bowl, stir together flour and salt. Using pastry blender, cut lard into flour
mixture until pieces are size of small peas. Sprinkle 1 T. of ice water at a
time over part of flour mixture and stir gently with a fork. Push moistened
dough to side of bowl; repeat until all the dough is moistened. Divide dough in
half. Form each half into a ball. Roll out and ease 1 crust into pie pan. Roll
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sugar, cornstarch, tapioca, and salt; pour over berries and combine gently. Let
stand 15 minutes. Transfer to 9-inch crust. Dot the top of filling with butter.
Lay on top crust, seal edges, and apply decorative pieces. Brush crust with
milk; sprinkle with sparkling sugar. Cover edges with foil to prevent
over-browning. Bake on middle rack at 400° for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350°
and bake another 45-50 minutes or until crust is lightly browned and filling is
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-51058030636469671782014-01-01T14:27:00.002-06:002016-08-21T22:35:56.729-05:00Cranberry-Raspberry Pie and a New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Hopefully I won’t be saying “Happy 2015” before I write
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We had several Christmas gatherings in the past week, and of
course I made a few pies. We hosted my side of the family in our home, and I
made a <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/11/turning-7-and-chocolate-chip-pecan-pie.html" target="_blank">chocolate chip pecan pie</a>, which I have already shared. For gathering
with my husband’s side of the family in Minnesota, I brought a
cranberry-raspberry pie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I saw this pie being prepared on the winter holiday edition
of <a href="http://www.iptv.org/iowaingredient/default.cfm" target="_blank">Iowa Ingredient</a>. (You can watch the segment <a href="http://site.iptv.org/iowaingredient/story/1211/baking-holiday-pie" target="_blank">here</a>.) The recipe was
shared by sisters Amy Barton and Elaine Keuning, who own and operate <a href="http://allaboutpies.net/" target="_blank">All About Pies</a>, in Monroe, Iowa. I think it’s hard to find a good pie away from home, so I’m
always interested in finding places to try good, homemade pie. I’m planning a
day very soon to take my kids snowshoeing out on the <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-break-from-drought-of-pie.html" target="_blank">prairie</a>, and since Monroe
is just down the road from the <a href="http://www.tallgrass.org/" target="_blank">refuge</a>, we may have to make a little detour and
pick up a pie to take home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m always looking for new ideas for using cranberries,
especially in pies, and Christmas seemed like the perfect time to try this combination.
I loved the tart bitterness of the cranberries paired with the flavor of the
raspberries, and the almond flavoring hinted just a bit at cherry. If you plan
to serve this pie minus the ice cream (the only way to eat pie, in my humble
opinion), you may want to bump up the sugar just a bit, depending on your sweet
tooth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a pie worth eating again and again, so stock up on
the cranberries in your freezer and you can make it whenever you want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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almond extract, flour, and sugar. Spoon filling into pie plate; dot filling with
small pieces of the butter. Apply and adjust the top crust; trim, seal, and
flute edges; cut slits to vent steam. Brush top crust lightly with milk and sprinkle on sparkling sugar.
Cover edges of crust loosely with foil to prevent overbrowning. Bake at 400°
for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°. Remove foil; bake about 35-45 minutes
longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-31926018143982537582013-07-08T18:36:00.000-05:002013-07-08T18:39:29.161-05:00Appleberry Pie...Gone!<br />
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I came home with two slices of peach pie (promptly finished off last night),
but the strawberry-rhubarb pie was gone, and so was the apple-blackberry pie. If
it hadn’t been such a hot day, I might have had the ambition to take a few
photos to share with you.....before we polished it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have entered this pie in the Iowa State Fair a few times.
It took 3<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> place in the two-crust fruit class at the 2009 fair and again
in the 2010 fair. I try to improve my entries from year to year, at least until I earn first
place…..so I guess I have a little work to do on this one! No matter the fair
results, if you are a berry lover, you must try this pie. (And give me any
suggestions you have to improve it!)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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slices, and lemon juice. In a separate bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch,
tapioca, and cinnamon. Add to fruit mixture and combine gently. Let stand 15
minutes. Transfer to pastry-lined pie plate. Dot the top of filling with
butter. Adjust top crust; seal and flute edges. Brush crust with milk; sprinkle
with sparkling sugar. Cover edges with foil to prevent over-browning. Bake on
lower middle rack at 400° for 10 minutes; lower heat to 350° and bake for 1
hour more or until crust is lightly browned and filling is bubbly in center. (Remove
foil last 15 minutes of baking.) Cool completely on wire rack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-82330722984605483052013-05-03T23:26:00.001-05:002017-05-11T11:42:44.218-05:00Butterscotch at the Potluck<strong>You can also find this post at <a href="http://twochicksfromthesticks.com/the-best-butterscotch-pie-ever-by-mindy-paulson/" target="_blank">Two Chicks from the Sticks</a>. A big thank you to Jamie and Jill, who invited me to guest blog!</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope that when my kids are of necessary age, they will
choose to join the best youth organization known to mankind. (In my humble
opinion.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Want to know what it is?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4-H.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why? Of all the activities I was involved in growing up, and
there were plenty, 4-H provided the greatest opportunity for me to grow
in all aspects of life and to develop any and every quality and skill I chose
to pursue. After all, there are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">four</i>
H’s: head (clearer thinking), heart (greater loyalty), hands (larger service),
and health (better living). On every scale: my club, my community, my country,
and my world. Yep, I think that pretty much covers it. What else is there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was a proud member of the Shiloh Sunny Smilers (don’t you
just love those 4-H club names?), an all-girls club that was the female answer
to whatever it is that boys do in their all-boys clubs. While the girls in my
club still had the opportunity to pursue other traditional “farm club”
interests such as machinery and animal husbandry (I’m sort of making that up, I
don’t really know what they called raising animals to show at the fair), our
girls’ club focused on all things domestic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many of my fondest memories of my childhood and adolescence
are of the varied activities and projects our club completed together. I recall
field trips to visit experts, such as when we were introduced to a woman who
refinished furniture. She had so many beautiful pieces in her shop, and I
remember thinking that I wanted to learn how to strip down old wood and make it
shine like new. At another club meeting each of us designed our own individual
quilt blocks, and then shopped with our moms for coordinating fabrics to bring
life to our designs. One frustrating individual sewing project involved a
floral print blouse with a collar and yoke that put me in fits and tears. (My
mom had to help me finish that one.)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every fall we prepared for our biggest club fundraiser,
canning and selling beef. Long before school was out for the day, our club
leaders and several of our moms would set up in the school cafeteria, ready to roll
by the time all the girls would arrive from our classrooms. We were assigned
different tasks depending on our age, such as cutting up the beef, packing the
jars, or measuring salt. Our moms (mine included) would handle the processing
of the jars in the large pressure canners they had lugged with them and placed
over the burners of the large industrial gas range, sometimes staying hours
into the night to finish in an initially-cool kitchen turned steamy-hot once
the first lid was removed. Their commitment made all the difference when in
early November, we set up our table at the local craft show and bake sale,
where we would sell out of canned beef just a few hours in. Our canned beef was
so popular that after the first few years, our club leaders began taking
advance orders so we could better keep up with demand. Certainly, this offered
us a lesson not only in home economics, but in economics itself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our club also held an annual senior citizen luncheon at the
community building, which coincided with preparations for our town’s annual
celebration, Wellsburg Days. As the carnival had arrived overnight and began to
set up right in front of the building, we would scurry back and forth between
the kitchen and the only grocery a half-block up Main Street, grabbing whatever
essentials we had forgotten as we began preparing a lunch that I seem to
remember included beef-burgers, potato salad, and a fruit salad with
marshmallows. I’m sure there was more, but the details have begun to fade.
(Surprising, considering it involves food!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For entertainment at the luncheon, some of our club members
who would be delivering a demonstration and competing at the county fair would
use the opportunity to practice and, in turn, delight an audience of senior women,
women who had long mastered the skills we had barely just begun to undertake.
One such day in the middle of June, my fellow club member, Monica, and I
demonstrated how to make banana bread. We used an old recipe that her mom
provided for us, which is still one of the best banana bread recipes I have. A
few months ago, after </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2013/01/im-centerfold.html" target="_blank">my recent appearance in Our Iowa Magazine</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, I received a handwritten letter from back
home, from a woman 101 years young (who still lives in her home, by the way).
She remembers me as a child and as a young teenager, who demonstrated making
banana bread at the senior citizen luncheon. And she still has our recipe.
Apparently, we made quite an impression!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That banana bread demonstration equally impressed the judges
at the Grundy County Fair, as Monica and I were selected to advance to
competition at the Iowa State Fair. In all honesty, though, I can’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">remember</i> if it was banana bread that we
prepared for the state fair audience. We had also demonstrated how to make an
angel food cake one year at the county level, but I don’t know for sure which
demonstration brought us to Des Moines. Either way, it was 4-H that gave me my
first opportunity to compete in and develop a love for the greatest of state
fairs, a love that continues today. I’ve now been competing in the foods
division for thirteen years straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As much as I love the Iowa State Fair, 4-H brought me far beyond
the ninety-minute trip to our state capital. While I’ve traveled to destinations
far more exotic and worldly, spending a week in our nation’s capital as a
teenager learning about how our government functions, from its beginnings, is
one of the greatest opportunities I think I’ve ever had, one which formed
lifelong friendships. The Citizenship Washington Focus trip for 4-Hers is not
your typical sightseeing tour. To put it mildly, it’s like leadership camp on
steroids with Washington, D.C., as your classroom. Not only did we have a
jam-packed week with visits to both well-known and lesser-known landmarks and
institutions that represent our nation’s history, we also participated in various
group learning sessions, assuming roles of policy-makers and “practicing” those
roles out in the community. While the capital city itself was mesmerizing, my
personal favorite was on our twenty-some-hour drive out East. Visiting a Civil
War battlefield at Gettysburg, standing on sacred ground that saw a moment in
history which shaped our nation forever, is most humbling. The up-close-and-personal
understanding of that history, well past a century later, established the purpose
of our week in leadership learning and the importance of ensuring a future in
which history will not be repeated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4-H provided serious opportunities, but it also provided
fun, fellowship, and food. In my club, that included our annual family potluck.
In my mind it came around every May, because I remember the feel of the warm
air on the breeze that wafted through the wide-open windows of the school
cafeteria. (In a small town, everything happens in the school cafeteria.) I
looked forward to it because it meant school would soon be over for the summer,
and the one dessert that I waited all year on which to feast, would grace the
potluck table as it did every year. The lip-smacking butterscotch pudding,
layered over rich cream cheese and topped with fluffy whipped cream and nuts
(let’s face it, it was most likely Cool Whip), all atop a pecan-studded crust, was
simply irresistible to me. Just like my uncle who started dishing his plate
dessert-first any time my grandma put her raisin cream pie on the table at a
family get-together, I too could not risk my long-awaited annual treat to be
swept out from under my fork. The position of the butterscotch dessert on the
potluck table was the start of the serving line, as far as I was concerned.
Yes, it was the first bite to hit my lips once I sat down with my plate,
brimming full of the best fare lovingly prepared by the best cooks in town and
on the farm, but it was also the last. I was careful to save one final morsel
to savor after finishing the rest of my dinner, to linger on my tongue…until
the next annual 4-H potluck. My only regret was never knowing who continued,
year after year, to please my palate at the potluck. It’s as if they knew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Butterscotch aside, my days as a Shiloh Sunny Smiler presented
me with more opportunities than I probably even deserved, but certainly did not
take for granted. I know someday soon my own children will be presented with
many of those same opportunities…for clearer thinking, greater loyalty, larger
service, and better living. They’ll learn cooperation, to pursue new skills, to
be leaders. They’ll explore their world both near and far. They may even find
their own version of butterscotch on the potluck table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All they have to do is choose 4-H.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Several years ago I
came across a recipe for a butterscotch pecan dessert, which turned out to be just
like the one I remember from the 4-H potluck table. It immediately took me back
to the warm, fresh air blowing through the school cafeteria, and now I make the
dessert to enjoy every May.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of course, why wait a
whole year to savor that rich, sweet treat, when you can enjoy it in a pie just
as easily. This recipe comes from Ken Haedrich’s </i><a href="http://www.harvardcommonpress.com/pie/" target="_blank">Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. I
entered this in the 2010 Iowa State Fair and took first place in the
butterscotch pie class. Checkerboard crust or just simple crimped edges, this
pie is a winner either way!</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Butterscotch Pie
with Checkerboard Crust</span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em>Checkerboard Crust:</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-lard-pie-crust.html" target="_blank">Pastry for single-crust 9-inch pie</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roll out dough and ease into pie pan. Trim crust. Make
cuts through the dough at approximately ½-inch intervals and approximately
½-inch long. Carefully fold every other section up and toward center of pie to
create checkerboard appearance. Line pastry with parchment paper and fill with
pie weights. Bake in 450° oven for 8 minutes. Remove parchment paper; bake 5-6
minutes more or until golden. Cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/3 c. all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 c. whole milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 large egg yolks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">¼ tsp. salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tsp. vanilla</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 T. butter, cut into small pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Combine brown sugar, flour, milk, egg yolks, and salt in
saucepan. Cook over medium heat, whisking until mixture thickens and starts to
boil, about 6-7 minutes. Continue to cook, whisking rapidly, for 2 minutes
more. Remove from heat; whisk in vanilla and butter, one piece at a time. To
cool, transfer filling to a bowl and chill over an ice water bath, stirring
occasionally, until completely cooled. Transfer filling to pie shell, cover
surface with plastic wrap, and chill in refrigerator for several hours or
overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 c. heavy whipping cream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 T. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">½ tsp. vanilla</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chopped pecans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gradually adding the sugar during beating. Add vanilla and beat until nearly
stiff peaks form. Spread whipped cream over pie and top with chopped pecans.
Serve and store remainder in refrigerator...as if you'll have any.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I shared this recipe on:</b></span><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/2013/05/full-plate-thursday-5-2-13.html" target="_blank">Full Plate Thursday</a> at <a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Miz Helen's Country Cottage</a></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/2013/05/church-supper-85.html" target="_blank">Church Supper</a> at <a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Everyday Mom's Meals</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://www.moneywisemoms.com/chicken-again-tasty-tuesdays/" target="_blank">Tasty Tuesdays</a> at <a href="http://www.moneywisemoms.com/" target="_blank">Moneywise Moms</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Three weeks ago I made a pie, and I’m just now getting around
to writing about it. (Lately, that’s nothing new.) Something I figured out, not
having time to do both:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s a whole lot more
fun to eat pie and not write about it than it is to write about not eating pie.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m sure you would agree. Nevertheless, I thought I should
at least share the pie with you. I mean the pie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">recipe</i>. The pie itself is long gone. The recipe, however, is
something old. Before I share it, I’ll fill you in on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You may have noticed the straying from my usual format of a few
photos with captions laced in between. That’s thanks to one of my favorite
blogs, <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/" target="_blank">Small Things</a>. Ginny Sheller shares about her life with her family in
their 1800s farmhouse in eastern Virginia, where she raises six children, knits, and tries to maneuver
life around her husband’s renovations. Most importantly, she shares their life
in beautiful photographs that always seem to bring a sense of peace and calm
pouring over me. My photos do not come close to measuring up to Ginny’s
talented eye, but I thought I’d deliver them today in a way that might string
together a story without me having to explain every detail, and let you put it
together for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Of course, I’ve been known to over-explain in duplicate,
sometimes even in triplicate, my random thoughts now and then. (Just ask my
husband. I’m sure he’d be more than happy to confirm that for you.) So, there’s
a chance that by the time you’re done reading, I will have given you the whole
story in words anyway. I thought I should warn you. But then, I guess you will
have figured that out by the time you are done reading…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As you may have guessed, I collect cookbooks. I have hundreds
of them. (Okay, I haven’t counted, but the tally is up there.) One of the
series I continue to add to is my collection of Iowa State Fair cookbooks. A
recent find is of the fair’s eighth edition, “History in the Baking,” during
Iowa’s sesquicentennial celebration. The recipes contained within its pages are
from three years of competition: 1993, 1994, and 1995. A special section includes
recipes of yesteryear, a sampling representative of Iowa’s 150-year past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While not from the section of historical recipes, I came
across a recipe for coconut cream pie that looked to have the simple,
old-fashioned flavor I was looking for. This pie won first place in the cream
meringue class in 1995 and was prepared by Clifford R. Ellington of Des Moines.
He topped the pie with meringue, but I was in the mood for a sweetened whipped
cream. The only other adjustment I made to the recipe was adding a bit of
coconut flavoring to the filling. The result was divine. I could have eaten it
all day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Three weeks ago was also the first warm day of Spring for
us, and the first weekend of soccer games. My kids wanted to spend their down
time “playing sports”, so I snapped photos while they did so with their dad.
And I observed a few more birds (a mourning dove and a brown thrasher) to add to
our growing list of sightings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Whether you’re doing something old or something new, I hope
your Spring is off to a warm start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Old-Fashioned
Coconut Cream Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(From “History in the Baking:
Recipes from the Iowa State Fair," with slight changes)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 c. sugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3 T. butter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-lard-pie-crust.html" target="_blank">1 9-inch baked pie shell</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Gradually
stir in milk. Cook until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat; cook and stir 2
minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir a little hot mixture (about 1 c.) into
beaten egg yolks. Return to saucepan and heat until bubbly. Cook and stir 2
minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in butter, vanilla, and coconut flavoring.
Stir in coconut; mix well. Transfer mixture to a bowl and place bowl in ice
water bath, stirring to cool. When completely cool, transfer mixture to baked
pie shell, cover surface with plastic wrap, and refrigerate several hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For topping:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Toasted flaked coconut (about 2 T.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Beat whipping cream in bowl of electric mixer until frothy.
Gradually begin adding sugar, beating continuously until soft peaks begin to
form. Stir in vanilla. Top filling with whipped cream and sprinkle on toasted
coconut to garnish. Store pie in refrigerator.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><b>I shared this recipe on:</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><b><a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/2013/05/full-plate-thursday-5-2-13.html" target="_blank">Full-Plate Thursday</a> at <a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/2013/05/full-plate-thursday-5-2-13.html?showComment=1367504759342#c1996690156192315353" target="_blank">Miz Helen's Country Cottage</a> and</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><b><a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/2013/05/church-supper-85.html" target="_blank">Church Supper</a> at <a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Everyday Mom's Meals</a>.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m back, and so is spring! The warm sun and fresh air
prompted me to make a pie, one that is equally bright and cheery, to awaken all
the senses. (Except for hearing. I’m pretty sure we can’t hear pie. Unless
that’s the point: peace and quiet.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There’s been a long pie drought plaguing my household. <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-national-pie-day.html" target="_blank">I shared with you back in January that I would be adopting simplicity</a> as a sort
of theme for the year ahead. That meant that making pie, and sharing it on this
blog, would happen a little less often.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Three months is a wee bit longer than what I had in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since that time, I’ve been busy. Aside from watching all the
home improvement projects my husband has been completing around the house as we’re
getting ready to sell (watching him takes up a <u>lot</u> of my time and energy),
I have been working on some of my own little projects. Mostly, they’ve been in
the form of organization. While reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simplicity
Parenting</i> (<a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-national-pie-day.html" target="_blank">you may recall seeing this book in a past photo</a>), I decided to
cut down the collections of toys, games, puzzles, and general kid-clutter in our
house…by half. This made a serious dent not only in making the space more
visually appealing, but also in our children taking greater responsibility to
routinely clean up their things when they are done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Books have been another issue that needed my attention. I
love to read, and I certainly have some books that will maintain their place on
my bookshelf for a long time to come. I have a habit of hanging on to books
that serve as a reference for me, but once they are no longer useful to me, I
pass them on. So my own books have not really been the problem. It’s the
children’s books that have taken over our household.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’d like to blame this on my children, but I can’t. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my son was born and I quit teaching to
stay home with him, all the children’s books I had purchased came home with me.
Having been a reading teacher for nine years, there were a lot of books. And
you can’t ask a reading teacher to get rid of her books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But it didn’t stop there. We added board books for the baby
years, gave our kids special keepsake books for every birthday, Christmas,
Valentine’s Day, Easter, and every major and minor holiday including Hanukkah (even
though we’re not Jewish), and ordered from nearly every Scholastic book order
(which often came home three at a time) since preschool started three years
ago. Not to mention the Scholastic book fairs during parent-teacher
conferences. And don’t forget the library books, both from the school library
and the public libraries (yes, we are card-carrying members to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">four</i> area libraries). Once, we had so
many books checked out that when it was finally time to return them, I had to
haul them in an 18-gallon tote in the back of my vehicle. (I think we had
checked out over 80 children’s books, over the course of several visits to the
library, at that time.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Like me, my children also love to read. My son was reading
early first-grade material before he even started preschool, and my daughter,
who is currently in preschool, is reading at a mid-kindergarten level. I know
beyond a shadow of a doubt that all the books they have been surrounded by
since the days of their births (yes, really – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Goodnight Moon</i> was one of the first board books I read to them in
the hospital when they were born), have been a major contributor to their
success as readers and more importantly, their love of reading and good books.
And I know that watching their parents read, surrounded by lots of good books ourselves,
has influenced them as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, I’m not going to apologize for all the books, but I do
still have control of them. While I’m quite certain that I didn’t cut down our
collection of children’s books by half, I did remove a sizeable chunk. Enough
that we could more easily house the books in the space we have. And in keeping with
simplicity, I found a system for organizing them that finally works for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m not sure why I waited this long (only seven years) to
figure this out. It’s essentially what I did to organize books in my classroom.
At school, I organized my books by reading level because that’s how I needed to
use them. This time, I organized our children’s books by category (such as science-related
books, favorite authors, favorite characters, etc.), assigned a different color
code to each category, labeled individual books within a category with stickers
of the same color, and placed all those books in the same basket on the shelf.
My son and daughter each have a shelved set of baskets in their rooms, where we
keep all the books, and the books are shared by all. So that made 16 baskets of
book categories. I had to get a little creative to come up with that many color
codes, but I made it work. (I know that doesn’t sound simple, but it is when
you consider the hundreds of books that would eventually end up in stacks
throughout my kids’ bedrooms as they pulled them off the shelf because they
couldn’t easily find the books they wanted.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I still have to create labels with corresponding stickers
for each basket front so the kids can easily find a book category and also
quickly know where to put back a book. Right now they just check inside a
basket to find sticker colors, and even so, it still is working so much better
than anything else we’ve tried (or haven’t tried).</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And speaking of books, we’ve been using a recent book purchase
to more thoroughly enjoy spring outdoors. I found this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Birds of Iowa Field Guide</i> in the bookstore of the <a href="http://www.tallgrass.org/" target="_blank">Prairie Learning Center</a> at the <a href="http://www.fws.gov/refuge/neal_smith/" target="_blank">Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge</a>. We headed “to the prairie,”
as we like to say, over Spring Break to enjoy the peaceful quietness we always
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I also took the bird guide with us when we spent a few days
over break visiting my sister. We had planned to hike a nearby nature trail
while there, but it was unexpectedly cold and snowing that day. The bird guide
wouldn’t have done the most good there anyway. My sister lives in Kansas. My
bird guide is for Iowa. (I’m always prepared like that.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in our backyard and the park behind our house. So far over the last few weeks,
we’ve observed and identified: hairy woodpeckers, red-bellied woodpeckers (not
to be confused with red-headed woodpeckers), blue jays, Northern cardinals,
house finches, dark-eyed juncos, black-capped chickadees, American robins, and numerous
sparrows, as well as the standard Canada geese and mallard ducks we often see
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>This is a female hairy woodpecker in a river birch tree in my backyard. Or it could be a downy woodpecker. They look very similar.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What does all this have to do with pie? The organization
projects, time spent outdoors, and bird-watching are just a few of the activities
that have kept me busy over the last few months. They are also what caused the
pie drought in our house. But, after such a long spell without pie, this one
sure tasted good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here’s to hoping this is the end of our drought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>The filling is a deeper layer than it looks in this photo. After I made the pie, I was impatient and forgot to chill it before slicing into it. As a result, the filling oozed out. Don't forget to chill it before enjoying!</em></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you’re looking for
intense lemon flavor with just enough sweetness to make you crave more, and an
insanely high layer of the fluffiest meringue this side of the Rocky Mountains,
so fluffy you’ll think that it’s whipped cream, then this is the pie for you. I
first saw this pie being made on Cook’s Country, and when I tried their recipe,
the level of tartness was sky high itself. I’ll never forget the seriously-puckered
look on my husband’s face after his first taste, which only became more so with
each subsequent bite. The next time I made a few adjustments, and this became
an instant favorite.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I entered this pie in
the 2010 Iowa State Fair in the Machine Shed Pie contest. It took first place
in the lemon meringue class, and then second overall for the contest, out of
about 120 pies. I think you’ll agree: this pie is a winner!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pucker-Up Lemon
Meringue Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Adapted from <a href="http://www.cookscountry.com/" target="_blank">Cook’s Country<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 ¼ c. sugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¼ c. cornstarch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¼ tsp. salt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">8 large egg yolks (reserve 4 whites for meringue)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-lard-pie-crust.html" target="_blank">Pre-baked 9” pie crust<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In saucepan, whisk together sugar, cornstarch, and salt;
add lemon juice and water, and whisk until dissolved. Bring to simmer over
medium-high heat, whisking occasionally, until mixture becomes translucent and
begins to thicken, about 5 minutes. Whisk in egg yolks until combined. Stir in
lemon zest and butter. Bring to simmer, stirring constantly, about 2 minutes.
Cool completely and pour into baked pie shell. Cover surface directly with
plastic wrap and place in refrigerator until well-chilled, several hours or
overnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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boil and cook 4 minutes, until slightly thickened and syrupy. Remove from heat
and set aside. Beat egg whites in electric mixer until frothy, about 1 minute.
Add salt and cream of tartar. Beat, gradually increasing speed, until whites
hold soft peaks, about 2 minutes. With mixer running, slowly pour hot syrup
into whites. Add vanilla and beat until meringue has cooled and becomes very
thick and shiny, 5 to 9 minutes. Mound meringue over chilled filling, being
careful to seal the meringue to the crust around the edges. Bake in 400° oven
on lower-middle rack until peaks turn golden brown, about 6 minutes. Cool
completely on wire rack, then chill well in refrigerator before slicing and
serving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i>I shared this recipe on </i></b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/2013/04/church-supper-81.html" target="_blank">Church Supper</a> at <a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Everyday Mom's Meals</a>.</i></b><br />
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now.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">am</i> in a
magazine, but I’m not exactly the centerfold. The actual centerfold pages are
42-43.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m on pages 72-73. Well, really I’m on page 72. The story
is on page 73. And that’s on the left column of the page. (The other column is
the recipe. And that’s only about one-third of that column. The rest of the
column belongs to two other recipes.)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Really. You can stop
laughing now.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh, and I have my clothes on. Trust me on this: I’m doing
you a favor.</span></div>
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laughing!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last August, one of the food competitions I entered at the Iowa
State Fair was sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.ouriowamagazine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Our Iowa</em> magazine</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, called Our Iowa Church Cookbook
Favorites. Each year the magazine sponsors the division and they choose a
different category. For the 2012 fair the category was coffee cake. And I won
first place!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I prepared a rhubarb coffee cake recipe from a church
cookbook whose recipes I grew up on. It was published way back in 1977 for the Wellsburg
Reformed Church, comprised of tons of the best recipes from the ladies of the church.
This recipe was submitted by Mrs. Carl L. (Ann) Nederhoff.</span></div>
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to the kitchen fund of the Iowa church from whose cookbook the recipe was
taken. The other part of winning is a spot in the “Recipes They’re Proud to
Share” feature in an issue of <em>Our Iowa</em>. Back in September, a photographer from
Des Moines, Perry Struse, spent an entire afternoon at my house photographing
me, the coffee cake, and me with the coffee cake (by the way, it wasn’t <u>the</u>
winning coffee cake; I did make a fresh one for the shoot – two, actually). He
made the long day a fun one, and even shot some photos of my daughter and me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday, a package arrived in the mail with an Our Iowa
apron, as well as an advance copy of the February/March 2013 issue. So, I don’t know if I’m allowed
to do this or not, but...do you want a sneak peek?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>That’s my daughter in the recipe card photo, pretending to chew on a piece of rhubarb. I think she’d rather just eat her rhubarb in the coffee cake.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you’re interested in the story along with several other
coffee cake recipes from the contest, you can subscribe to <em>Our Iowa</em> magazine on
their </span><a href="http://www.ouriowamagazine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">website</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. Or, you can visit one of the retailers which carry the magazine.
You can find a list by clicking </span><a href="http://www.ouriowamagazine.com/index.cfm?nodeID=21507&audienceID=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Personally, I would get the subscription. I’ve been a
subscriber myself since first spotting the June/July 2010 issue at </span><a href="http://www.machineshed.com/des-moines/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Machine Shed Restaurant</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. I even give gift subscriptions, and I’ve never done
that for any magazine ever. I subscribe to several magazines, and this is by
far the one I cannot wait to arrive. I read absolutely everything in it, which
takes a long time because it’s not filled with a bunch of advertising the way
most magazines are. It’s published by Roy Reiman, founder of Reiman
Publications, which originally published magazines like Taste of Home, Birds
& Blooms, Country…..so you know this is quality. And it’s written and
photographed by fellow Iowans. Definitely a gem for touring the great state of
Iowa!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another unanticipated perk for me of winning this
contest is that I finally now have in my possession my very own copy of the
church cookbook! Every summer I “borrow” my mom’s copy in search of a great
recipe to fit the magazine’s contest category for the upcoming state fair. So I
asked the church if they knew where I could find a copy. 35 years after it was printed
meant my chances were not good. But they came through and located a copy and
sent it to me. I’m so grateful! Now I can browse and bake some of the recipes
from my childhood whenever I want!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Before I share the recipe for the coffee cake, I want to
take a moment to thank not only the Wellsburg Reformed Church for the cookbook,
but also Our Iowa magazine for a fun experience: at the fair, during the photo
shoot, and through phone conversations with Paula Wiebel (editorial assistant
and wife to editor Jerry Wiebel). I am grateful for the generous prize money; I
know the church will put it to good use. And thank you especially for including
me in my favorite magazine...even if I’m not the centerfold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie (uh, I mean coffee cake),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Rhubarb Coffee
Cake</span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from the Wellsburg
Reformed Church cookbook, “Happiness is Good Cooking,” page 116*<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For cake:</span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></strong> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 ½ c. all-purpose flour</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 tsp. baking soda</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ tsp. salt</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. butter, softened</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 ½ c. sugar</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 egg</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 tsp. vanilla extract</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 c. buttermilk</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3 c. chopped rhubarb</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 c. packed brown sugar</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. chopped walnuts</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in small bowl and
set aside. In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add
egg and vanilla; beat well. Gradually add flour mixture, alternating with
buttermilk, and mix until combined. Fold in rhubarb.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Spread batter in greased 9x13-inch baking pan. Combine
brown sugar and walnuts in a bowl; sprinkle on top of batter. Bake at 350° for
about 45 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For topping:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. butter</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 c. sugar</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¾ c. evaporated milk</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 tsp. vanilla</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine butter, sugar, and evaporated milk in saucepan
and heat until boiling. Boil for 3 ½ minutes; remove from heat and add vanilla.
Beat well. Pour over warm cake just after it’s removed from oven. Poke holes in
cake to let topping soak in. Cool on wire rack.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">*If you have a copy
of this cookbook, you may notice that flour is not listed in the original
recipe. In my mom’s copy, she hand wrote “2 ½ c. flour” – a great perk about
living in a small town: when something’s missing from a recipe, you can ask the
contributor yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-17617307226214399402013-01-23T18:29:00.000-06:002013-01-24T07:20:56.287-06:00Happy National Pie Day!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s National Pie Day! I hope you made a pie to celebrate,
because I didn’t. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I haven’t
made a pie, a real pie, in almost a month. You would think that someone who makes
a pie every week and writes a blog about it would make pie a little more often
than I have lately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, I’ve been doing other things with my time. More
important things. Things that need some attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I don’t really make New Year’s resolutions, but when I turn
the page on the calendar and begin a new year, I do tend to reflect on what the
previous year was like and what I want to change. Mostly, I re-evaluate my
priorities. And this year, my theme, if you will, is simplicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know I won’t make everything in my life as absolutely
simple as it could possibly be. But simplicity itself is not the goal, nor is
it the point. I want to simplify the things in my life so I can focus on what’s
truly important to me. Like my family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Monday was a no-school day for my son. It was not for my
daughter, but we made it one by skipping preschool at the last minute to spend a
fun day together. We spent part of our time at the library. After my son
checked out what seemed to be every title in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Wars: The Clone Wars</i> series, as well as some “Fact Tracker”
titles as non-fiction companions to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Magic Tree House</i> series (“Jack and Annie books” as my son lovingly refers
to them), we headed home to do a little reading.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em>This is one of my son's latest favorite reading positions.</em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Mary Pope Osborne, I hope you’re reading this. I don’t want
this to sound pushy, but I’m afraid it will. You already do a fabulous job at
writing quickly. A new title every four to six months is most impressive, but
do you think you could write even a little faster and turn out new Magic Tree
House titles more often? Like the wind that spins the tree house at the start
of each adventure, my son has now blown through nearly the first half of your
series at warp speed, currently reading #23, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twister on Tuesday</i>. He has tunnel vision on #47, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abe Lincoln at Last</i>, and at this rate,
he’ll probably be finished with the entire series by April. And then what will
we do? Do you have a plan? Otherwise, we’ll have to start looking for another
great series that</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> turns history and geography and the
wonders of the world into incredible magical adventures that engage children in
text while teaching them almost everything they’ll ever need to know about
almost everything that has ever happened since the beginning of time. I’m
exaggerating here, but you know what I mean. You should. You wrote the books.
So what do you say?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After some time reading, we spent the rest of the day, I
believe the coldest so far this winter, engaged in winter-themed indoor projects. We
designed snowflakes out of toothpicks and marshmallows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>These marshmallow-and-toothpick snowflakes were inspired by </em></span><a href="http://www.momto2poshlildivas.com/2012/01/winter-fest-south-florida-snow-day.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas</em></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><em>.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We created snowflakes to hang in the window by folding and
cutting shapes out of coffee filters:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And we made more homemade play dough, this time leaving it un-tinted
and sprinkling in some glitter to make it sparkle like snow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And none of this would have been possible if I had instead
spent the day doing all the “extras”, like scrubbing the grout lines in the
tile floor (I’d rather pay someone), cooking a gourmet seven-course dinner (we
had leftover beefburgers instead), or writing a blog post about a pie that took
another hour or more of my day just to make (leftover homemade oatmeal cake is
just as sweet).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While simplicity has its advantages, I do realize it can
also mean missing out on some things from time to time. And that’s why I won’t
entirely give up the “extras,” I’ll just keep them in perspective and do them
when it works for me to do them. But simplicity can also mean having more time
to do some things you would like to do more often (like actually <em>doing</em> some of the fabulous projects with my kids that I find on Pinterest), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because</i> you refocused your priorities and simplified other areas of
your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Like reading. I don’t get to read as much as I would like. I
enjoy writing, too, but as Shelley Harwayne, one of my favorite authors on
teaching writing, likes to say, I’m a better writer because I read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em>My latest choice for reading is accompanied by a nice hot cup of pomegranate green tea. And by reading, I mean it sits on a basket in between me glancing through the table of contents and browsing a page or two.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While baking a pie every week and writing a blog about it
has been mostly for me, I still have not placed myself high enough on my list
of priorities. Mainly, I haven’t focused on taking care of myself in the ways I
want to. I know that simplifying my life will allow me more time to do that as
well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, Pie on Sunday is not going away entirely. I’ll still
share the recipes with you, and maybe some stories, but I won’t be making pie
as often as every week. I love pie, and so does my family, but quite frankly,
we miss all the other treats I used to bake when I wasn’t making so much pie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hope you do get to enjoy some pie on this National Pie Day,
on Sunday, or any time you get the chance. As for me, I’ll be enjoying more
time with myself and with my family, on Sundays and every other day in between,
and we’ll share some pie when it’s simple to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie, and in simplicity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-2579650789826508202013-01-14T23:16:00.000-06:002013-01-20T12:13:31.025-06:00Mileage from a Chicken Pot Pie <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNy5n54TjDNda2nGvnH1CUvZH6HuOYYVmaZvUMKvsH_S348GG9RhuerwHg4DLYnF_UVmhGUkv00DwNvYKxKzf_Q1KLMUMsSNX6LywdixNMUNoD_dXb_CBHhsji9XyIEreDFpkZVicfsY/s1600/DSC_0009-001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNy5n54TjDNda2nGvnH1CUvZH6HuOYYVmaZvUMKvsH_S348GG9RhuerwHg4DLYnF_UVmhGUkv00DwNvYKxKzf_Q1KLMUMsSNX6LywdixNMUNoD_dXb_CBHhsji9XyIEreDFpkZVicfsY/s640/DSC_0009-001.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What do these two pictures have in common?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mileage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(I know. I’m the Queen of Strange and Unusual Connections. I
can’t help it. It’s the reading teacher in me.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Allow me to explain…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Well, I’ll explain the connection between the two pictures.
You’ll have to figure out the reading teacher part yourself.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My sister sent me this photo she took of the odometer in her
car when it turned 400,000 miles just the other day. No extra zeroes in that
number. That’s correct. Four-fifths of the way to a half-million miles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She drives a 1995 Toyota Camry. Well, now her husband mostly
drives it. They traded in his much newer car for another much newer Camry. (The
one she now mostly drives.) And that officially makes them a Cam-Fam. (Get it?
That’s <i>Camry</i> and <i>family</i> put together. I made it up. Like you didn’t know.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And me? I’m green with envy. I mean, how many people out
there can say they have 400,000 miles on their car, 385,000 of which they put
on it all by themselves? (Not including Ferris Bueller. And he didn’t even go
anywhere.) But, that’s what you get when you take excellent care of your car,
people. My sister is the only person I know who actually waxes her car by hand
and follows the maintenance schedule in the owner’s manual to a T. Contrary to
the popular belief of most men, those manuals really are worth reading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What does all this have to do with chicken pot pie? Well, it
doesn’t come with an owner’s manual, unless you count the recipe. But chicken
pot pie can definitely get you some mileage. I mean, how many dishes out there
can you serve without a crust and still call it a pie? (Okay, not counting
Boston Cream Pie.) That’s the point. You can serve chicken pot pie pretty much
any way you want and still call it pie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I prepared this chicken pot pie over the weekend, and it was
the perfect answer to a bitterly cold January day. My friend, Jill, gave me the
recipe several months ago, and I’ve made it three times already. I love that
there is no canned soup in it, and even so, it’s still just as simple. Jill
makes hers with top and bottom pastry crusts, but I changed it a little and
used a biscuit topping instead. I love the buttery goodness of the biscuits
with the creamy taste and texture of the chicken filling. Definitely comfort
food to warm you, body and soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dare I say it? Warm your engine and get some mileage with
this chicken pot pie, no matter how you make it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yours in pie,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mindy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></o:p><b><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Chicken Pot Pie
with Biscuit Topping</span></u></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Filling recipe from
Jill Kinnison</span></i><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></em><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Biscuit recipe from
<a href="http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Chicken-Potpie-Casserole#.UGtssROEYKM.pinterest" target="_blank">Taste of Home</a></span></i><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></o:p><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the filling:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1/3 c. butter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1/3 c. onion, chopped</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1/3 c. all-purpose flour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">½ tsp. salt</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">¼ tsp. pepper</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1 ½ c. chicken broth</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2/3 c. milk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 to 2 ½ c. shredded, cooked chicken</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 c. or more frozen mixed vegetables (I used peas and
carrots)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and
cook for 2 minutes or until tender. Stir in flour, salt, and pepper until well
blended. Gradually stir in chicken broth and milk, stirring constantly until
mixture is bubbly and thick. Add chicken and vegetables. Remove from heat and
pour into greased 9” square (or larger) baking dish.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the biscuits:</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 c. all-purpose flour</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4 tsp. baking powder</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 tsp. sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">½ tsp. salt</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">½ tsp. cream of tartar</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">½ c. cold butter, cubed</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2/3 c. milk</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt
and cream of tartar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; stir
in milk just until moistened. Turn onto a lightly-floured surface; knead 8 to
10 times. Pat or roll out to ½-inch thickness. Cut with 2 ½-inch biscuit
cutter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Place biscuits over chicken mixture in baking dish. Bake,
uncovered, at 400° for about 20 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i>I shared this
recipe on:</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i><a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/2013/01/full-plate-thursday-1-17-13.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccab33;">Full-Plate Thursday</span></a> at <a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ccab33;">Miz Helen's
Country Cottage</span></a></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i><a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/2013/01/church-supper-71.html" target="_blank">Church Supper</a> at <a href="http://everydaymomsmeals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Everyday Mom's Meals</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i> Check out all the great recipes at these Linky
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-35461053350409484632013-01-07T15:20:00.001-06:002013-01-12T10:43:46.485-06:00Specken Dicken Recipe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>For more on Specken Dicken, read my post about our family </em><a href="http://www.pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2013/01/traditions.html" target="_blank"><em>Traditions</em></a><em>.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 c. dark flour (graham whole wheat or graham rye, if
available)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 egg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 to 2 tsp. anise seed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Buttermilk, enough to make batter just right, about 2
quarts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 tsp. baking soda dissolved in a little warm water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bacon, cooked and cut into little pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Metwurst, sliced in little pieces and then cooked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine ingredients (flour through baking soda) as you
would for making pancakes, combining wet ingredients first and stirring in the
dry ingredients. (Add more of the buttermilk as needed.) Place a few pieces of
each meat on hot griddle (medium-high heat) and cover with pancake batter for
regular-size pancakes. Flip when bubbles appear and begin to dry. Serve with butter and
dark Karo syrup or regular pancake syrup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i>I shared this recipe on <a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/2013/01/full-plate-thursday-105-1-10-13.html" target="_blank">Full-Plate Thursday</a> at <a href="http://mizhelenscountrycottage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Miz Helen's Country Cottage</a>. Check out all the great recipes at her Linky Party!</i></b></span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-5725606958329707202013-01-06T22:18:00.001-06:002013-01-12T10:49:30.316-06:00Traditions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Specken dicken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ever heard of it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Most likely, you have not. In all my life, I’ve only met
one person outside my little hometown who ever has heard of it, and that’s all
he could say about it. He had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heard</i>
of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you’re wondering, specken dicken is a pancake with meat
in it. It was derived in Germany, where my family’s ancestry begins, and it was
traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day for good luck. I thought I read once that
long ago it was believed that if one could afford to put meat in the pancake,
then they were set financially for the year to come. But I can’t find that
reference in my quick online research, so I’m not positive that’s completely
accurate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Also in my quick online research, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">specken dicken</i> is the only spelling I came across. But having come
from the small Iowa town of Wellsburg with strong German roots, I checked
through several hometown cookbooks, as well as my grandma’s recipe, and came
across a few more spellings: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">speck and
dicken, speck-n-dicken, spec an dicken</i>. And just as many recipes for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last weekend, we celebrated Christmas with my family at my
sister’s house. Since it was only a few days until New Year’s Day, my sister whipped
up a batch of specken dicken so we could celebrate the start of the new year
with an old family tradition. This is one we grew up with every New Year’s Day
at my grandparents’ house, with my grandma and aunt spending most of the
afternoon into early evening preparing these pancakes over hot griddles. That’s
actually what I meant when I said my sister whipped these up, and we both
understood why Grandma seemed so worn out when the dinner was over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In our family, we eat specken dicken with the meat cooked
right into the pancake. We use cooked bacon pieces and cooked pieces of
metwurst, then pour the pancake batter over the top of the meat on the griddle.
Metwurst, pronounced “<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">metvuss” where
I grew up, </span>is a strongly-flavored German sausage, and chances are pretty
good that if you’ve never heard of specken dicken, you’ve probably never heard
of this sausage either. Traditionally, we serve the pancakes with butter and
dark Karo syrup, though most people prefer regular pancake syrup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>(If you want the recipe, you can get it by clicking <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2013/01/specken-dicken-recipe.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another tradition that has developed over the past several
months in my home is pie on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">most</i>
Sundays. And in case you were wondering, we did have pie last Sunday, once we let
our stomachs rest a little after filling them with specken dicken. I made the pie
and brought it along to my sister’s house. I found this recipe for Cranberry
Pear Pie at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Cranberry-Pear-Pie" target="_blank">Taste of Home</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The recipe comes from Helen Toulantis of Wantagh, New York,
and it was originally published in the November/December 2005 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://countrywomanmagazine.com/" target="_blank">Country Woman Magazine</a></i>. I loved the
fresh flavor of the pears, and the cranberries added just a little zip and gave
the pie some festive splashes of color. And I don’t think you can ever go wrong
with a crumb topping.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, I have another Sunday evening tradition to tend to.
Tonight is the premiere of the third season of <em>Downton Abbey</em> on PBS. I’ve been watching since the first season, and I can
hardly wait to see what Maggie Smith’s character, Violet Crawley (the Dowager
Countess of Grantham), will do to clash with Shirley MacLaine’s new character, the
American, Martha Levinson, as the mother of Cora (the Countess of Grantham). I
also cannot wait to find out what is going to happen to John Bates, the former
valet convicted of murder, and his devoted wife, Anna, the head housemaid. Will
she be able to save him? And of course, there’s the wedding of Lady Mary
Crawley to Matthew Crawley. (I think you’d better watch if you have questions
about that.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">TTFN. I’m off to enjoy a cup of tea while devouring <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Downton Abbey</i>. Now, if I only had a
piece of pie…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cranberry Pear Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Cranberry-Pear-Pie" target="_blank">Taste of Home</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pastry for single-crust 9-inch pie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 T. all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. maple syrup</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 T. butter, melted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5 c. sliced, peeled fresh pears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 c. fresh or frozen cranberries</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Topping:</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¼ c. packed brown sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 tsp. ground cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1/3 c. cold butter, cubed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. chopped walnuts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Line a 9-in. pie plate with pastry; trim and flute edges.
Set aside. In a large bowl, combine the flour, syrup and butter until smooth.
Add pears and cranberries; toss to coat. Spoon into crust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For topping, combine the flour, brown sugar and cinnamon;
cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in walnuts. Sprinkle over filling.</span></div>
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overbrowning. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°. Remove foil;
bake about 45 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is
bubbly. Cool on a wire rack.</span><br />
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<br />Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-21905347590659721662012-12-11T15:17:00.000-06:002016-12-15T12:22:50.160-06:00Copycat Bauder's Peppermint Bar, in a Pie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you’ve ever enjoyed ice cream from the <a href="http://bauderpharmacy.com/" target="_blank">Bauder Pharmacy</a>
stand at the Iowa State Fair, chances are pretty good that you’re going to melt
over my next two words:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peppermint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if you have no idea what I’m talking about…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You. Are. Missing. Out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Big time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(By the way, that’s “YAMO” for you acronym-texting, smart
phone junkies. I made it up. Unless someone else already did…I don’t know. I
don’t text!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like most fairgoers, I have my list of must-have foods to be
eaten once-a-year at the fair. But unlike many fairgoers, other than a
Campbell’s corndog, the rest of my list cannot be eaten on a stick. A BBQ pork
sandwich dinner at the pork tent, deep-fried cheese curds, a cup of Barksdale’s
cookies, the all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at Cattleman’s Beef Quarters
(where they serve <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pork</i> sausage),
honey lemonade in the Ag building, and at the top of my list…..a peppermint bar
from Bauder’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pink peppermint-stick ice cream is piled high between two
layers of crushed Oreo cookies and a layer of hot fudge, neatly wrapped in
red-and-white-checkered tissue paper, and served with a spoon. (Check out a few
photos at <a href="http://homemadeiowalife.blogspot.com/2012/08/iowa-eats-bauders-ice-cream.html" target="_blank">My Homemade Iowa Life</a>.) Except for the bite or two that my sister
always manages to mooch off of me, I’m not too keen on sharing this once-a-year
treat. Which is kind of funny, because every year we say that we should make
them at home so we can enjoy them more often than once a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then we realize that we need peppermint stick ice cream, and
in August, when it’s 326° outside and the humidity in Iowa makes it feel like
800°, you can’t find a winter-themed ice cream flavor in any grocery store
north of the equator. I’ve checked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, we soon forget all about our novel idea to extend a
favorite summer treat. But this year, when the first carton hit the freezer
shelves at my local grocery store, I again thought of those Bauder’s peppermint
bars. Since I’ve been making pie every week, I wondered about turning that
peppermint bar into a pie. So I did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For this first go-round, I went all out. Knowing that
peppermint stick ice cream is a limited-time flavor, I decided making my own
would allow for somewhat impromptu indulgence of this treat any time of year…dangerous
I’ll admit, but for now I’ll take my chances. And for all the scratch cooking
and baking I do, I realized that I had never made my own hot fudge sauce. So this
seemed like the perfect opportunity to start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had no idea how many ways there are to make hot fudge
sauce, and my first attempt (that already sounds like it ends badly) wasn’t
exactly what I was looking for in hot fudge. The first sauce I made with corn
syrup and cocoa was a little hard and chewy when served on ice cream, likely
because I overcooked it. (I had to test it, what do you expect?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I needed a sauce to withstand the freezer without becoming
too hard. I came across a recipe using sweetened condensed milk and chocolate
chips. I wanted a more-chocolaty flavor than I got with the cocoa, so I thought
I’d try it. This hot fudge was just what I wanted. So good! The real test was
in the fact that I kept going back to the fridge with a spoon. (And it wasn’t
for the good-for-you sautéed kale and mushroom dish on the middle shelf. Which
I happen to like a lot.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Start to finish, it took a little while to make this pie,
mostly in waiting time. Waiting for the ice cream mixture to chill. Waiting for
the hot fudge sauce to cool and chill. Waiting for my daughter to crush the
candy canes (after waiting for her to unwrap them first – I didn’t want to eat
plastic). Waiting for the ice cream to firm up in the Oreo cookie crust-lined pie
plate in the freezer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Waiting for this pie to be finished is also why you have
waited to read about it. But trust me. It’s worth it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you don’t want to wait as long as I did, you can go the
convenience route and use a premade Oreo cookie crust, store-bought peppermint-stick
ice cream, and a jar of commercial hot fudge sauce (my recommendation would be
Mrs. Richardson’s). Either way, you won’t have to wait until August for the
Iowa State Fair to roll around again. You can enjoy this copycat version of
Bauder’s famous peppermint bar – in a pie – whenever you want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You’ll even have enough to share with your sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This recipe looks
lengthy, but you can easily prepare each part ahead of time and assemble it all
at once when you’re ready. If you decide to forego homemade and settle on
convenience, you will need: a prepared Oreo cookie crust, 1 quart peppermint-stick
ice cream, 8 oz. hot fudge sauce, 18 Oreo cookies (for the topping), 2 candy
canes, and a partridge in a pear tree. (Just kidding on the last one. That
wouldn’t be very tasty.)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peppermint Bar Ice
Cream Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the crust:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">18 Oreo cookies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 T. melted butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pulse cookies in a food processor or place inside a re-sealable
bag and crush with a rolling pin. Gradually add melted butter and combine well.
Press mixture into pie plate (I used a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate) and
refrigerate until ready to use.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the ice cream:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from <a href="http://itsybitsyfoodies.com/peppermint-ice-cream/" target="_blank">Itsy Bitsy Foodies</a>, with slight changes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(This made a full 1 ½ quarts of ice cream in my machine. You'll need about 1 quart for the pie.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 eggs, well beaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 c. whole milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 c. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 c. heavy cream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1½ tsp. vanilla extract</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tsp. peppermint extract</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3-5 drops red food coloring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 c. crushed candy canes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a large saucepan, beat the eggs, milk and sugar until
well blended. Cook over low heat for about 20 minutes, stirring constantly,
until thickened. It should smoothly coat the back of a wooden spoon. Cool
completely. Add the heavy cream, vanilla, peppermint extract and food coloring.
Stir until blended and refrigerate until completely chilled, for several hours
or overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use a meat tenderizer or rolling pin to crush the candy
canes (some will be finely crushed, others in small pieces). Following the
instructions for your ice cream maker, pour the chilled mixture into your
machine and process, adding crushed candy canes according to machine
instructions (usually five minutes before ice cream is finished). Transfer the
ice cream to a sealed container and let it ripen for several hours. Or…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At this point in making the pie, you can carefully spoon ice
cream into chilled prepared cookie crust, then place in the freezer to firm up.
You will need approximately one quart (4 cups) of the ice cream. Don’t overfill
the pie plate! Be sure to save some room at the top of the pie plate for adding
the hot fudge layer and the cookie/candy cane topping.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the hot fudge sauce:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from <a href="http://www.eaglebrand.com/recipes/details/default.aspx?recipeID=4196" target="_blank">Eagle Brand®<o:p></o:p></a></span></i></div>
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(This makes 2 cups, but you'll only need 1 cup for the pie.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 c. (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 T. water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 tsp. vanilla extract</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Melt chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk,
butter and water in medium-sized heavy saucepan over medium heat. Beat smooth
with wire whisk if necessary. Stir in vanilla. Cool and store in refrigerator.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the cookie topping:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">18 Oreo cookies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 large candy canes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Place cookies in a re-sealable bag and gently crush with
a rolling pin, leaving slightly large chunks, so the cookies look more like
crumbles rather than finely crushed. Set aside. Use a meat tenderizer or rolling
pin to crush the candy canes, leaving mostly large chunks. Set aside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once the ice cream has set firm in the prepared cookie
crust, slightly warm the fudge sauce in the microwave just enough to make it pourable.
You don’t want it warm enough to melt the ice cream. You’ll need about 1 cup of
the sauce. Carefully pour it onto the ice cream and spread evenly with an
offset spatula. Carefully sprinkle on the crumbled Oreo cookies and press
gently into the fudge sauce. Sprinkle on the candy cane chunks. Return pie to
freezer to firm up until ready to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When serving, remove pie from freezer and let it set at
room temperature for 5 minutes or so, to make slicing easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I think I may disappoint you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(If you can’t handle it, then you should stop reading now.
But if you do, you’ll miss a hint about next Sunday’s pie. So, you should
probably just keep reading.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On Saturday, I spent the morning at a gift market fundraiser
for my daughter’s preschool. I had baked four pies – two apple-blackberry and
two <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/11/turning-7-and-chocolate-chip-pecan-pie.html" target="_blank">chocolate chip pecan</a> – for the bake sale, which had a wide assortment of
delicious-looking home-baked treats. My kids each brought their own money so they could buy
something. My daughter quickly decided on a plate of mint crème brownies, and
my son, after what seemed like hours of deliberation, finally settled on one whoopee
pie and a plate of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While my kids were searching out the perfect treat to take
home, I decided on my own bake sale purchase. Other than my pies, there were
only two others on the table at the time, and I knew this was my chance to
finally have a pie that I did not have to bake myself. And I knew right away
which one it would be:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Peanut butter pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(That was not the part that may lead to your disappointment.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I had neither made nor eaten a peanut butter pie until now,
and I have no idea what I was waiting for. Wow! Talk about a rich, sweet pie.
It was so good, and so worth it’s $6 price tag. I could pay near that for just
one slice in most restaurants!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Here’s where the disappointment comes in.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With all the sugar that walked out of that bake sale, into
my house, and directly into all of our veins, I knew there was no way I could
make the pie I had originally planned to make this weekend and still live to
tell you about it while in a sugar-induced coma. So, I didn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m sorry. But I promise that you will not be anywhere close
to disappointed with the festive pie I make for next Sunday. All I have to say
about it is…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">peppermint</b>…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oreos</b>…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hot fudge</b>. You won’t want to miss it! (And I promise I will not be shopping any bake sales this week.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Until then, I’ll share this picture with you of the pie my
family enjoyed, thanks to the generous, anonymous person who brought it to the
bake sale. And thanks to you for your patience!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I can’t share the
recipe for this pie since I have no idea who made it. But I would love to get
some recipes for <strong>Peanut Butter Pie</strong>. My taste buds detected chunky peanut butter
and cream cheese in this pie, but whatever your recipe, please share! You can
post a recipe in the comment section below, or email it to me at </span><a href="mailto:pieonsunday@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">pieonsunday@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></i></div>
Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-80377723164204219802012-12-03T00:01:00.000-06:002012-12-03T00:01:58.370-06:00Pie Fair Lady<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.piefairlady.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pie Fair Lady</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> recently featured my post about </span><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/11/turning-7-and-chocolate-chip-pecan-pie.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. If you’re not familiar, the blog is a round-up of “the best sweet,
savory, big [and] small pies food bloggers have to offer”. Each post shares a
photo along with a description of each pie and a link back to the original blog
post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pie Fair Lady is written by Rachel Rappaport, a food writer,
recipe developer, and author of cookbooks, including </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1440531684/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=coconutlime-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1440531684" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Everything Whole Foods Cookbook</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1440502315?ie=UTF8&tag=coconutlime-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1440502315" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. Rachel also shares
her original recipes on her food blog, Coconut & Lime, which offers over
1200 recipes for good, wholesome food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you get a chance, check out </span><a href="http://www.piefairlady.com/2012/12/chocolate-chip-pecan-pie-by-pie-on.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pie on Sunday’s appearance at Pie Fair Lady</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, along with the many other pie recipes featured. And if you’re
looking for some good wholesome recipes of other kinds, check out Rachel’s
</span><a href="http://www.coconutandlime.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coconut & Lime</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> blog. You’ll be glad you did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-91403979771002579742012-11-26T18:12:00.000-06:002012-11-26T21:40:31.323-06:00Toasted Pecan Pie from Hometown Cooking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Even though we just celebrated Thanksgiving, and I have
plenty for which to be thankful, this will be a short post this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m getting ready for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every year it arrives so quickly, and every year I’m not
ready in time, even after swearing that I will start earlier the next year.
(And I imagine that I’m not alone.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But it never happens…except for this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I want to spend time with my family in the days leading up
to Christmas...baking cookies, making candy, eating pie (wait till you see what
I have planned for this next Sunday!), sledding, drinking hot cocoa, (or
dreaming of sledding while drinking hot cocoa, since we probably won’t have any
snow by then), shoveling snow, building snow forts, (again, just dreaming),
reading Christmas stories, watching Christmas movies, helping my kids make their Christmas presents…all
the fun stuff that makes the season bright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What I will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> be
doing this year is what I do every year...staying up until 2 a.m. on Christmas
Eve wrapping presents because I waited until the last minute. (Literally. I’m
still wrapping presents after Santa lays a finger aside his nose, <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">gives a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">wink – or is it a nod? – and up the chimney he rises.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have a good start. I spent much of this weekend shopping
and running errands, so I’m ahead of the game, and I want to keep it that way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, I’m sharing the recipe for the Toasted Pecan Pie that I
made for Thanksgiving. (My mom also made a delicious traditional pumpkin pie. I’ll
have to share the recipe with you sometime.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For now, I’m off to do more shopping and prepping for
Christmas. Only 29 days left!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hoping you had a happy Thanksgiving!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>My 4-year-old daughter couldn't wait to eat this pie and started with the crust.</em></span></td></tr>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is my favorite
pecan pie. Well, just barely, after diving into the <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/11/turning-7-and-chocolate-chip-pecan-pie.html" target="_blank">Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie</a> I
made last week to celebrate my son’s birthday. This pie is so yummy! I entered
it in the Iowa State Fair in 2004 and took first place in the pecan pie class. Toasting
the pecans brings out their flavor and gives them a nice crunch, and the
added buttery, maple pecan topping really puts this pie over the top!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I found this recipe
more than ten years ago, in the August 2001 issue of </i><a href="http://www.bhg.com/recipes/learn-more-about-hometown-cooking-magazine/" target="_blank">Hometown Cooking Magazine</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, and it’s been my favorite pecan
pie ever since. </i>Hometown Cooking<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is
also my favorite cooking magazine. Or I should say, was. It’s no longer
published. It ran from October 1999 until its last issue in August 2002. I know
because I have every issue. (Yes, still. And they are not going anywhere.) Each
issue featured the best hometown cooks from across the country and their
favorite recipes, and highlighted the community cookbooks which featured those
recipes. The magazine was such a great source of delicious tried-and-true
dishes, which were also tested in the kitchens at </i><a href="http://www.bhg.com/" target="_blank">Better Homes & Gardens</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. (<a href="http://www.meredith.com/" target="_blank">Meredith Corporation</a> published
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this tried-and-true Toasted Pecan Pie, I’ll be scanning recipes and catching up
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hometown Cooking
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2/3 c. light corn syrup</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine eggs, 1 c. sugar, corn syrup, 1/3 c. maple syrup,
¼ c. melted butter, vanilla, and salt. Mix well. Stir in ¾ c. chopped pecans.
Pour filling into prepared pastry shell. Cover edge of pie with foil to prevent
overbrowning. Bake pie in 350° oven for 45-50 minutes, until knife inserted
off-center comes out clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine ¾ c. pecan halves, 3 T. sugar, 3 T. maple syrup,
and 1 T. butter in microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on 100% power (high) for 1 ½ minutes;
stir. Spoon the topping over the warm, baked pie. Cool completely on wire rack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Spread pecan halves in a single layer in a shallow baking
pan. Bake in 350° oven for 5-10 minutes or until light golden brown, watching
carefully and stirring once or twice to prevent burning.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Special note: The
magazine gives nutrition information for each recipe. This recipe was divided
into 12 servings, and I don’t think I’ve ever cut a pie into that many slices!
Even so, I’m not going to freak you out with the fact that this pie has 453
calories per serving (that’s 1/12<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> of the pie)…just enjoy it before
you set your New Year’s resolutions.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know. It doesn’t sound like that big of a deal. It’s not like
he turned one….or five….or sixteen. It’s not one of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">big</i> birthdays. But yet, it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s monumental. Because he’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> one anymore, when he was still my baby. He’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> five anymore, ready to start
kindergarten. (And thank God, he’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
sixteen. I know we have a few years to go, but I already predict that he should
not…I repeat…<u>not</u> be given keys to a car. Perhaps ever. Because
he is, without a doubt, his father’s son.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He’s taller, for one…..smarter…..even more handsome. And
he’s lived a little more life, which means he wants more independence. So, he’s
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focus on the positive changes that come with his age. For instance, when he’s
not pushing her around, he steps in as the protective big brother to his little
sister. (Though she’s quite capable of sticking up for herself, thank you very
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especially for those who have less than he does. For his birthday party, he asked
his friends to not bring him gifts, but instead to bring new, unwrapped toys
that he can collect and donate to our local <a href="http://des-moines-ia.toysfortots.org/local-coordinator-sites/lco-sites/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Toys for Tots</a> for this Christmas
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family, we rounded out his birthday by going out for pizza. He sat next to his
dad on the inside of the booth, and when he was ready to head to the restroom
to clean up, he proceeded to slide under the table to get out. My husband
quickly stopped him, and this is how the conversation went:</span></div>
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Loves it. So he’s really enjoying the fact that he gets to have pie every week,
now that I’m making pie a lot more often. I really haven’t been too
adventurous, I’m kind of a pie purist and just like more traditional pies. I
had not yet tried adding chocolate to pecan pie, and when I came across this
recipe from Laurie at <a href="http://cookinupnorth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">cookin’ up north</a>, I knew it was time to start. Laurie
says this is “hands down [her] favorite pie ever”, and I thought the chocolate
chips would make having pie a little more special for my son on his birthday. This
pie is definitely deliciously rich, like eating a chocolate chip cookie with, um...pecan pie. (Does that mean it has twice the calories, or half the calories of
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Laurie’s recipe calls for filling an unbaked crust, so of course, thinking the
bottom may not get golden and flaky, I first <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-thanksgiving-feast-and-maple-custard.html" target="_blank">partially pre-baked the crust</a>,
then filled it. I wish I had just baked it once, as Laurie did. While the crust
tasted fine, had a nice texture and was done on the bottom, partially pre-baking
it created some avenues for seepage of the filling, which also allowed some of
the filling to spill over the edge of the pie plate from underneath the crust…and
all over the bottom of my oven. Next time I will save a step and just fill an
unbaked crust…as the recipe calls for!</span></i></div>
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Pecan Pie</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-lard-pie-crust.html" target="_blank">Pastry for single-crust 9-inch pie</a></span></div>
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1 c. light corn syrup<br />
½ c. sugar<br />
¼ c. melted butter<br />
1 tsp. vanilla extract<br />
1 c. pecan halves<br />
¾ c. chocolate chips<br />
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Combine eggs, corn syrup, sugar, melted butter, and vanilla in bowl. Stir in
pecans and chocolate chips. Pour filling into pastry-lined pie plate. Bake at
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week for the Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie I will be making to celebrate my son’s
birthday. I don’t have a recipe to share with you this week because I didn’t
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Instead, I spent the weekend with my sister in Rochester,
Minnesota, at the North Central Hearts at Home Conference. </span><a href="http://www.hearts-at-home.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hearts at Home</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> is a
Christian-oriented resource for moms whose mission, according to their website,
is to “e<span class="inset-right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ncourage, educate, and equip every mom in every
season of motherhood using Christian values to strengthen families.” The
conference was beyond uplifting and inspiring, with keynotes from Dr. Juli
Slattery, formerly of <a href="http://www.focusonthefamily.com/" target="_blank">Focus on the Family</a>, and my personal favorites, <a href="http://www.duggarfamily.com/" target="_blank">Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar</a>. (You might remember me sharing with you that <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-tomato-problem-and-tomato-basil-pie.html" target="_blank">my dad could feed their whole family with his massive vegetable garden</a>.) They certainly
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was not home to cook all weekend, my husband and I shared some Chinese take-out
for a late dinner. After devouring the lo mein, egg rolls, and crab rangoon, I
cracked open my fortune cookie: “I am always doing that which I cannot do in
order that I may learn how to do it.”</span></span></span></div>
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the weekend I spent learning more about my job as a mom. Not that I don’t know
how to be a mom already. But I always want to improve and learn anything I can
that will help me do it better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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I was in a constant search for a better way to help my individual students
learn in their individual ways, and the best way to figure that out was simply by
doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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innate. We are born with a desire to make sense of life and everything in it. It’s
what drives us deep within, whether we do that by making connections, asking
questions, inferring, etc. Whatever our strategy, whatever the context, our
ultimate goal is to make sense of the situation. And one powerful tool for
doing so is analogy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="inset-right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Analogy is the vehicle that gets us from what we already
know to what we need to know. It’s a tool I used multiple times in each lesson as
a reading teacher. And I’ve found it can be used effectively in pie baking as
well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="inset-right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m not sure you’ve noticed in the photos, but for
a while, my pie crusts were not very flaky. They were lacking the quality I’m
accustomed to producing, and I didn’t understand why. So I began to
investigate. I didn’t do it simply by researching methods other pie bakers were
successfully using. I did it by changing and testing my own methods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="inset-right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What I first realized was that the quality of my
crusts began changing shortly after I switched from using store-bought
commercial lard to locally-produced lard, the kind without all the
preservatives and hydrogenation. But I knew it couldn’t be the lard itself that
was causing the lack of flakiness. So I began adjusting one step at a time,
from the amount of water I was using, to how much mixing of the dough I was
doing, to the time the dough spent chilling. Then I thought about the amount of
lard I was using.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="inset-right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When using store-bought lard, which comes in one-pound
blocks, rather than measuring by volume in a measuring cup, I would just use
half the block, or eight ounces, which I figured was about one cup, the amount
I use for making my pie crust recipe. When I switched to using locally-produced
lard, which comes in a large tub, I had to measure the lard by scooping it into
a measuring cup.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="inset-right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here’s where the analogy comes in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Several years ago, I drove four hours north to take a bread-baking
class at a popular kitchen shop in Minneapolis. (Back then, I had not yet
learned about the value of time, or of gas.) I don’t really spend much time
baking bread these days. I tend to let my bread machine do most of the work for
me, so I can spend my time baking pies. (Maybe someday someone will invent a
pie-baking machine.) Even so, I did get something valuable out of the class, which
recently came in very handy while I was working to regain the quality of my pie
crusts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What if I measured the lard by weight, rather than by volume?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the bread-baking class, I learned that the flour should always be
measured by weighing it, to ensure that the same amount of flour was used every
time, for consistent results. I realized when measuring the locally-produced
lard that I probably was getting some variation each time since what actually
made it into the measuring cup could vary. Perhaps my pie crust no longer had
enough fat to make it flaky because I wasn’t measuring the amount I was
previously using.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It all made sense, and I brought flaky back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The moral of the story? The next time you want to learn something new
or improve what you are already doing, just consider what you are already
doing, do it differently, and do that which you cannot do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-81745112890645406642012-11-06T14:59:00.001-06:002012-11-06T15:11:14.873-06:00Send Me Your Favorite Pie Recipes!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgyRL-CfLzQj3hroRaCpWYoKHXPreiof5iTiAH2rUMoFe7hD8GglK0WUaR1bUq-kZVq08MsKLYV5h-b8tIbCqHqsqylW2nIq4cFAUWeZ91xu6Jj5t-b1gytiHzvAH2APqnEN2PpCKLeU/s1600/DSC_0085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgyRL-CfLzQj3hroRaCpWYoKHXPreiof5iTiAH2rUMoFe7hD8GglK0WUaR1bUq-kZVq08MsKLYV5h-b8tIbCqHqsqylW2nIq4cFAUWeZ91xu6Jj5t-b1gytiHzvAH2APqnEN2PpCKLeU/s200/DSC_0085.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday I received an invitation in my inbox from <a href="http://farmflavor.com/" target="_blank">Farm Flavor</a> to join their group board on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, “<a href="http://pinterest.com/farmflavor/favorite-holiday-recipes/" target="_blank">Favorite Holiday Recipes</a>”, and pin
some pie recipes from my blog. If you’re not familiar with Farm Flavor, they
feature recipes in their magazines and on their websites, with a goal of
educating readers by connecting food and farm. Their publications include <a href="http://tnhomeandfarm.com/" target="_blank">Tennessee Home & Farm</a>, <a href="http://my-indiana-home.com/" target="_blank">My Indiana Home</a>, and <a href="http://ilfbpartners.com/" target="_blank">Illinois Partners</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That got me thinking about sharing pie recipes -- specifically,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> sharing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">your</i> recipes with me. And with the other person who reads my blog.
(Thanks, Mom.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, I want <strong>your favorite pie recipes</strong>. They don’t have to be for
the holidays, or for Sunday. Any day of the week or time of year will do. And they don't have to be only dessert pies. Savory pies are certainly warranted, and I'll take any recipe with "pie" in the name. (Unless it's for a mud pie that actually contains mud. I'll leave that pie-making to my kids.) Be sure to <strong>include the type of crust used or a recipe for it</strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It
doesn’t matter how you got the recipes, whether you developed them yourself, received
them from a friend, found them in a cookbook or online, or used a very
old-fashioned method -- clipping them from the pages of a magazine or newspaper. Just give
credit to the source if you can, and if you made any changes to the recipe, as
<a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/evelyn-birkby-and-barbershop-gooseberry.html" target="_blank">Evelyn Birkby</a> says, I want the changes. Give me the recipe the way you make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I will try to make some of the pies eventually and feature them
here on Pie on Sunday. To get your recipes to me, you have two options:</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Post the recipe(s) in a comment at the bottom of
this post. (Please post a new comment for each recipe.)</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Email the recipe(s) to me at: </span><a href="mailto:pieonsunday@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">pieonsunday@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I can’t wait to get your recipes! And if you get a chance,
stop in at <a href="http://farmflavor.com/" target="_blank">Farm Flavor’s website</a> (they have a ton of great recipes, among other things) or check out all the recipe pins from various food bloggers on their “<a href="http://pinterest.com/farmflavor/favorite-holiday-recipes/" target="_blank">Favorite Holiday Recipes</a>” board on Pinterest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-69989554291094977262012-11-05T17:54:00.000-06:002012-11-05T17:54:55.357-06:00Not Too Late for Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Better late than
never.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That’s what “they” always say, but I wonder if “they”
considered that it might not always be true. Think about it…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What if an ambulance or the police showed up two hours after
you made a 911 call, at least for a call other than one your two-year-old made
while experimenting with the phone? (I may or may not have
stared dumbfounded at an officer at my front door at 7 a.m. one Saturday morning.) Or, what if you
made it to the airport three minutes after your plane left the runway? (Well, I
guess you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> get another flight.)
Or, what if you’re an expectant mother who has gone into labor and is waiting
on the anesthesiologist to give you an epidural? (Yesterday would have been too
late in that case.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fortunately, it’s always better late than never for pie.
(Unless you hired a caterer to serve pie instead of cake to 300 wedding guests
and the caterer had your wedding as the following Saturday on his schedule. And,
you found out at your reception.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We did have our pie on Sunday this week. It’s what was in
the pie that was better late than never…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It seems like I’m always a month behind when it comes to
pumpkin season. In September, when everyone is bursting at the seams to crank up the apple peeler/corer/slicer and whip out 30 batches of applesauce in
addition to caramel apples, apple cakes, apple crisps, apple pie bars, and of
course, apple pie, I’m trying to catch up with the end of summer. (I mean, did
you read about <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-tomato-problem-and-tomato-basil-pie.html" target="_blank">my dad’s tomatoes</a>? It’s November, and I still have a few sitting
on my counter!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I don’t usually get to any significant apple recipes until after
I make my first trip to the orchard. It was the first weekend in October when I
made <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-trip-to-orchard-and-caramel-apple.html" target="_blank">Caramel Apple-Pecan Pie</a>. That’s when everyone else began whipping out
their pumpkin recipes. Now, there is no way I could ever wait until November
for pumpkin bars, and I baked a pan of my favorite recipe while it was still
October. But there is something about pumpkin pie that says I have to wait
until November. It’s meant for Thanksgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, in keeping with my odd schedule rule, I made pumpkin pie
for Sunday, the first one in November. I’m glad I did because <a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-thanksgiving-feast-and-maple-custard.html" target="_blank">it really got me excited for Thanksgiving</a>.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Break out the Pilgrim
hats! Is it too soon for turkey?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s been several years since I made a pumpkin pie. I think
the last time I did it was a not-so-classic version. While I really love traditional
pumpkin pie, <a href="http://www.midwestliving.com/food/desserts/classic-pie-recipes/page/1/0" target="_blank">this Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Midwest Living Magazine</i></a> was a tasty, gentle variation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now...since you’ve all moved on from pumpkin season and are
busy prepping for making Christmas candy, I’m going to enjoy my
pre-Thanksgiving pumpkin pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pumpkin Cream
Cheese Pie</span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Midwest Living
Magazine<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-lard-pie-crust.html" target="_blank">Pastry for a single-crust 9-inch pie</a></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">1 </span><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">15-oz. can pumpkin</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">¾ </span><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">cup sugar</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">¼ </span><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">tsp. salt</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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evaporated milk</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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cheese, softened</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">½ </span><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">tsp. vanilla</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Line a
9-inch pie plate with pastry. Trim overhang to an even 1 inch all the way
around. Tuck the crust under and flute the edges high. Do not prick pastry.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">In a
medium bowl, combine pumpkin, 3/4 cup sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add 2 eggs;
beat lightly with a fork just until combined. Gradually beat in evaporated
milk.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">In a large
mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and 1/3 cup sugar with an electric mixer on
medium speed until smooth. Add 1 egg and vanilla. Beat until combined.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Transfer
cream cheese mixture to the pastry-lined pie plate. Place the pie plate on the
oven rack. Carefully pour pumpkin mixture over cream cheese mixture. To prevent
overbrowning, cover the edge of the pie with foil.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bake in a
425<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span>F oven for 15 minutes; reduce oven temperature to 350<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span>F. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes more or until a knife inserted near the
center comes out clean, removing foil during the last 15 minutes of baking. Cool on a wire rack. Cover and store in the
refrigerator within 2 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Breast cancer reaches so many lives. Estimates show that by
the end of 2012 in the U.S. alone, close to a quarter of a million new cases of
invasive breast cancer (there are other types) in women will have been
diagnosed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That number means almost nothing, until it reaches you or someone
you know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know too many women who have received the diagnosis – a
fellow teacher, a neighbor, a friend, an aunt, my husband’s grandmother, my
mother-in-law. And my mom. She’s a fourteen-year (this month), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">two-time</i> breast cancer survivor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’ll never forget the day my mom first told my sister and me that
her mammogram indicated a lump and doctors confirmed it was breast cancer. It
felt like the world came to a screeching halt when those two words slipped off
my mom’s tongue and into the air. My sister and I were so afraid of the
possible outcome. I can only imagine how scared my mom must have been. And then
she had to experience it all over again last year, when she heard the diagnosis
for a second time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fortunately, my mom regularly had routine mammograms
performed, so doctors found the lumps early on both occasions. Because of that,
my mom underwent lumpectomies and radiation treatment and was able to avoid
chemotherapy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thirteen years ago, my mom, my sister, and I walked in our
first Race for the Cure, to benefit the </span><a href="http://ww5.komen.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Susan G. Komen for the Cure</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> foundation.
We know, first hand, the importance of early detection. Without mammograms, my
mom might not be here today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Aside from a few years with conflicting schedules, we’ve
walked in the race each year since 1999. This year’s Des Moines, Iowa, Race for
the Cure took place yesterday. My sister couldn’t join us, but this year my
children did for the first time. They walked with my mom and me on the one-mile
loop. Along the way they were entertained by a very talented corps of drummers.
They also took part in the kids' fun run. But the highlight of their first Race for the Cure was
having their photo taken with a Star Wars Stormtrooper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know my young children don’t understand the real reason we
walked in the race. To them it was an experience in walking too closely to a bunch of
jubilously crazy people dressed in pink boas and pink wigs, down the center of a crowded city
street they don’t otherwise get to walk down, in the cold autumn air. Oh, and
to meet a character from one of their favorite movies, who they might possibly deem
a hero simply because he’s in one of their favorite movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As some of the “bad guys”, Stormtroopers aren’t exactly my
idea of heroes. But if they could forever wipe out an enemy like breast cancer
from the face of Planet Earth, they just might be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Someday, my kids will understand why we race. I only hope
they don’t have to understand it first-hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After all, isn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> really
why we race?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie (and in the race),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since October is National
Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink ribbon is the international symbol,
I wanted to incorporate a pink ribbon into my pie-baking this week. I decided
on Rhubarb Cream Pie from <u><a href="http://www.twochicksfromthesticks.com/web/" target="_blank">Two Chicks from the Sticks: Back Home Baking</a></u>
since the rhubarb would show up pink. When I rolled out the top crust, I used a
knife to carefully carve out a ribbon shape and then carefully adjusted the top
crust onto the filling. I’m not very artsy, but I think it turned out looking
like a pink ribbon, and the pie tasted great!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rhubarb Cream Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pastry dough for a two-crust 9-inch pie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 ¾ c. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3 eggs, slightly beaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¼ c. all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¾ tsp. ground nutmeg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">4 c. rhubarb, diced (if using frozen, defrost and lightly
drain off excess liquid)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 T. butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Line pie plate with bottom crust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To prepare filling, combine sugar, eggs, flour, nutmeg,
and rhubarb in a bowl. Pour mixture into prepared pie plate. Dot filling with
small pieces of the butter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Adjust top crust, seal and crimp edges. Cut slits to
allow steam to escape. Cover edges with foil to prevent overbrowning. Bake pie
at 400<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span>
for 15 minutes, then lower oven temp. to 350<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">° and bake for another 45 to 55 minutes
or until filling is bubbly in center. Cool completely on wire rack before
slicing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>As American as mom, baseball, and apple pie.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I started thinking about that while making this apple pie --
except I was thinking about grandmas instead of moms, and horses instead of
baseball.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While my husband was busy completing some projects in the
warm autumn air, the kids and I spent Sunday visiting my grandma (<a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/10/two-chicks-and-chocolate-cream-pie.html" target="_blank">the one on whose farm I rode horses as a kid</a>). She will be 89 years young in a few weeks
and now resides in an assisted living apartment. Though she still cooks for
herself, I prepared a meal to take along, and of course, it being Sunday and
all, an apple pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As a kid, I enjoyed running around on my grandparents’ farm.
I remember the sweet smell of hay as I explored the barn, and the freedom I
felt as I roamed the property. The farm is where I had my first driving
lessons, imagining my own roads and stop signs (and trying not to crash into
any buildings). When we weren’t begging to drive the pickup, my cousins, my
sister, and I would race the three-wheeler across the length of the farm, from
the highway, past the house, and all the way down to the crick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Yes, people. I said it. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crick</i>.
Also known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">creek</i>, for those of you
who might be English majors, or unlike me, grew up somewhere north of the 43<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup>
parallel. South of there, sometimes we get lazy and just call it a crick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh, and a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pickup</i>?
That’s a truck, in case you were wondering.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the top of my list of things to do on the farm was riding
horses. I didn’t get to ride very often, so it was always special when I did, and
to me, horses have always been such special animals. One particular horse with a
most calm disposition was Raebo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My grandma and I talked about Raebo during our visit. A
registered quarter horse, my grandma said Raebo lived to be 32 years old. I
remember her being a kind and gentle mare, with the patience needed to handle
young riders like my cousins and me, especially since I hardly knew what I was
doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While being impatient ourselves and not wanting to take no
for an answer (quite possibly a family trait), I
remember a time when my cousin and I decided that we would ride anyway. We
needed help with the saddle, and since no one would help us, Neil and I figured
we could just ride bareback. We had done it before, but this time we would do
it without assistance…and without reins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Knowing how much the horses loved the apples from the
Wealthy tree that stretched across the fence into the pasture, Neil and I lured
Raebo to the fence with the apples. Standing on the fence post to give us some height,
we carefully mounted Raebo once she was close enough to reach. I rode behind
Neil, hanging onto him to stay atop the horse, and he held onto Raebo’s mane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For a short while, we were quite proud of ourselves,
mounting a horse without any adult assistance, riding bareback without a
saddle, and without reins, we soon realized we had little control. Raebo was
her usual kind spirit and moved slowly, though we had hoped for something
closer to a gallop even for a few moments. But even patient horses have their
limits, and we soon realized Raebo had reached hers. We did quickly enjoy those
few moments of a gallop, and then suddenly, but ever so gently, Raebo put on
the brakes, lowered her head and neck, and gave Neil and me our first trip down
a horse slide. One right after the other, we slid off the front end of Raebo
and landed softly in the pasture. I guess it was Raebo’s way of telling us to
get a saddle, or get off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While I enjoyed riding horses, I also enjoyed eating apple
pie. My other grandma (<a href="http://pieonsunday.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-lard-pie-crust.html" target="_blank">the one who taught me about rendering lard and making pie crust</a>), would take my sister and me to visit our great-grandma on occasion.
I remember the pink walls in her bathroom, her cats who liked to bite, and her incredible
apple pie. I was very young at the time, but I can still taste the apple pie
she would serve us. It was very fresh-tasting, not overdone with lots of
spices, just a small amount of cinnamon, perhaps even a dash of nutmeg. I have
not tasted any apple pie like it since then, and though I try, I certainly have
not been able to re-create it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The apple pie I made for Sunday is as close as I’ve come to
my great-grandma’s apple pie. It has a nice fresh apple flavor, and it reminds
me of her. So if you make an apple pie, think of your grandmas, or your mom,
and horses, or baseball…..or whatever it is that makes you feel American!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Classic Fresh
Apple Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My favorite apple for
pie is the Jonathan. (It’s also my favorite name for a husband.) They are firm
apples that hold their shape during the long baking required for pie, and I
especially like their tart flavor, which allows you to add the amount of sugar
needed to give the pie as much or as little sweetness as you like. If you use
another apple (and the possibilities are endless), you may need to adjust the
amount of sugar, and possibly the amount of thickener (flour in this case), to
achieve the results you desire.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pastry for double-crust 9” pie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6 to 7 cups peeled and sliced apples (I used 6 ½ c. for
this pie)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2/3 c. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 T. all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ tsp. cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dash of salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 T. butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sparkling sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt; add to apples
in a large bowl and mix well. Transfer filling to pastry-lined pie plate. Dot
filling with butter. Adjust top crust, flute edges, and cut slits to allow
steam to escape. Brush crust with milk; sprinkle with sparkling sugar. Cover
edges with foil. Bake at 375<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span> for 15 minutes, lower heat to 350<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span>
and continue baking for another 45-60 minutes or until filling is bubbly in
center, removing foil the last 15 minutes of baking. Cool completely on a wire
rack.</span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-60932716650084054632012-10-16T13:41:00.000-05:002012-10-17T13:09:52.975-05:00A Thanksgiving Feast and Maple Custard Pie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know it’s not yet Thanksgiving, but I couldn’t wait for
popcorn and maple syrup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What? Not the first thing that comes to mind when you think
of Thanksgiving?</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is for me. And for Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. Remember Snoopy popping a kitchen-full on their Thanksgiving special?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Each year as Thanksgiving draws closer, I recall
the annual Kindergarten/First Grade Thanksgiving Feast from my elementary school days. As
kindergarteners, we created our construction paper headbands, complete with
construction paper feathers, and our paper bag dresses to look like the Native
Americans (though I think we were Indians back then). We would make the long
treacherous journey across the hallway to join the first graders, who were
dressed in their own construction paper hats as Pilgrims, for a bountiful feast
– of popcorn and maple syrup. (I’m sure there was more to our feast, I just can’t
remember the rest of it because I loved the popcorn and maple syrup so much.)
And the next year as first graders, we took our turn dressing as Pilgrims and
welcomed the new kindergarteners, dressed as Native Americans themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I don’t know if the Native Americans and the Pilgrims
actually shared popcorn and maple syrup at the first Thanksgiving. If they didn’t,
they should have. It could have been their early version of caramel corn. With
a dash of salt, that’s just what it tastes like.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">This is my new favorite popcorn, <a href="http://www.farmersbestpopcorn.com/" target="_blank">Farmers Best</a> out of Rockwell City, Iowa. It air-pops light and fluffy.</span></em></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thinking about maple syrup, I was prompted to try something
new this week. I typically stick to fruit or cream pies; making a pie each
week, I have plenty of room to expand my repertoire. Sometime I plan to make a
maple cream pie, but while browsing through Ken Haedrich’s <u><a href="http://www.harvardcommonpress.com/pie/" target="_blank">Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie</a></u>, I came across a recipe
for Maple Custard Pie. Other than pumpkin, I don’t think I’ve ever made a
custard pie, so this was a great time to start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This pie was definitely the easiest one I’ve ever made. It’s
not the most eye-appealing, but it has a nice maple flavor. It did not bake up as
high as I would have expected, and at first glance I was disappointed. But
after I took a bite, it was just the right amount of custard. Since Ken
recommends using a light amber maple syrup, and dark amber was the only kind I
could find around here at three stores, I decided to add another touch of maple
by whipping some cream with a little maple syrup to sweeten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Whether you make pie or popcorn (though I don’t know why you
wouldn’t try both), add some pure maple syrup to sweeten your Fall days.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Maple Custard Pie</strong></span></u></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Slightly adapted
from <u>Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie</u> by Ken
Haedrich.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Partially prebake the
crust</i>: Line the pie plate with the pastry, then line with foil and fill
with pie weights. Bake at 400<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span> for 15 minutes, then remove foil and
pie weights and cool on a wire rack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine all filling ingredients in a large bowl and whisk
briefly until evenly mixed. Pour filling into cooled pie shell. Cover edges
with foil. Place pie on center oven rack and bake until filling is nicely
browned and set, 35 to 40 minutes total. About 25 minutes into baking, rotate
pie 180 degrees. When done, the pie should be jiggly but not soupy in the
middle. Cool pie thoroughly on a wire rack, then refrigerate several hours or
overnight before serving. Serve with maple whipped cream, if desired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For maple whipped cream, whip ¾ c. heavy cream with a
wire whisk while slowly and gradually adding about 1 T. pure maple syrup, until
just after soft peaks form. (I used ¾ c. cream because that’s what I had left after making
the pie. You can use the amount you like and adjust the maple syrup as needed.)</span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-2355359239437929332012-10-08T00:46:00.001-05:002012-11-26T18:13:48.927-06:00Two Chicks and Chocolate Cream Pie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Grab your rolling pin, and get a fork. This pie is so good,
you’ll want to eat till it’s gone. (I haven’t done this myself, of course, I’m
just saying that you will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want</i> to.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s so good, it earned me first place in the one-crust
cream class of the Machine Shed Pies division at this year’s Iowa State Fair. This
is definitely the best chocolate cream pie I’ve ever tasted. The chocolate
flavor is rich and intense, and after you make this pie, you’ll want to make
the filling alone for your next chocolate pudding fix. It’s really that good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s so good, that I call it Classic Chocolate Cream Pie,
because that’s what I think of when I eat this pie. Though perhaps I should name
it again, as The Best Chocolate Cream Pie Ever. After all, that’s what it is,
in my not-so-humble opinion.</span></div>
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<a href="http://twochicksfromthesticks.com/blogs/?p=3840" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Two Chicks from the Sticks</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> named it Chocolate Whipped Cream
Pie for their cookbook, <u>Two Chicks from the Sticks: Back Home Baking</u>. And
this is one of the best baking books ever. (You’ll recall that I love to read
cookbooks like novels, and this is one of them.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jill Schwalbe Means and Jamie Greenland Gorey, also known as
the Two Chicks from the Sticks, grew up on neighboring farms near Grand River
in southern Iowa. As best friends, they did everything together, including
learning how to bake. As adults, they created a cookbook, to share their love of
baking and the recipes they grew up with, as well as to pay tribute to all
those hard-working rural women who taught them how.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jill’s and Jamie’s cookbook is more than a compilation of the
best recipes they enjoyed back home in their small community. It’s also full of
photographs from their childhood days and stories about the women who influenced
their culinary abilities. And it’s like reading the history of my own
childhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I came across this…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em>Jill, with her sisters on the first day of the new school year.</em></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em>Me with my rolled-up jeans, and my sister, Amy, with her Trapper Keeper (and her perm).</em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not only do the recipes remind me of my culinary adventures
growing up, courtesy of the many women in my own life of the rural community of
Wellsburg, Iowa. The stories and photos take me back to my days spent as a
4-Her, to church and community dinners and potlucks, to Sunday afternoon tea
with my grandparents, to popcorn balls we made with my mom for Halloween, to
riding horses with my cousins on my grandparents’ farm, to sleepovers and
slumber parties and the treats my friends’ moms would prepare for us, to
homemade birthday cake, and to my sister and I rolling up our jeans for the
picture our dad would snap of us standing in the driveway on the first day of
school each year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There’s just one thing I wish I could change. I wish I could
have ridden the school bus, so my sister and I could share dessert from the
night before as our breakfast, the way Jamie and Jill did on their hour-long
bus ride every morning. I would happily have taken a duct-taped seat just to
have the chance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you’re wondering, there are plenty of pie recipes in this cookbook from
which to choose, including apple, mincemeat, and specialties like Zucchini Pie.
There are also three pie crust recipes, and of course, stories that will make
you wish you grew up on a farm near a small rural Iowa town back in the ‘70s
and ‘80s, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here’s what Jill has to say about the Chocolate Whipped
Cream Pie, the one I made for this week’s pie on Sunday:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This recipe was inspired by Ramadean Shields, a family friend and a
highly respected member of our rural community. She is known for her signature
chocolate pie. This pie was so popular at community gatherings that it was the
first to disappear. Try this creamy, chocolaty, and incredibly yummy treat, and
you’ll see why.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I couldn’t agree more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>I listed the recipe for how I made the pie. I made a few minor alterations, such as my directions for baking the crust. If you have the Two Chicks cookbook and you make this pie, be sure to either update your recipe from the one listed on their blog, or follow my instructions below. There was a mistype in the directions printed in the cookbook, but if you are experienced at making cream pies, you will easily catch it and adjust anyway.</em></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Classic Chocolate
Cream Pie (or, The Best Chocolate Cream Pie Ever)<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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for a one-crust 9” pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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out and ease crust into pie plate. Line pastry with parchment paper and pie
weights. Bake at 450° for 8 minutes, remove paper and weights; bake 5-6 minutes
more or until golden. Cool completely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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filling:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ tsp. salt</span></div>
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mix well. Gradually add milk and semisweet chocolate, whisking until smooth.
Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture just begins to boil. Remove from
heat. Slowly and gradually stir 1 cup of hot mixture into beaten egg yolks in a
small bowl. Add this to hot mixture in pan and return to stove. Stirring
constantly, cook over medium-low heat for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir
in butter and vanilla. Transfer to a glass bowl and cover surface of pudding
with plastic wrap; chill in refrigerator for several hours. Once cool, pour
into pie shell and spread evenly.</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For the topping:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In large mixing bowl, beat cream
until stiff peaks form while gradually adding powdered sugar. Add vanilla.
Spread about half of whipped cream over pie. Pipe remaining whipped cream onto
pie to decorate. Garnish with chocolate shavings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6895197343411677985.post-80278413791789920792012-10-01T22:47:00.003-05:002012-11-19T21:34:53.948-06:00A Trip to the Orchard, and Caramel Apple-Pecan Pie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Caramel and pecans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Need I say more?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m going to anyway.
It’s what I do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Three quintessential flavors of Fall. Combined in a pie,
they become decadent. This pie is so deeply rich and sweet; you’ll still taste
it 364 days from now. And on the 365th day, you’ll make it again, just as I did
on Sunday. (It may have been only 362 days since I made it last, but who’s
counting…)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love apple season. With the late Spring frost after the
apple trees began blooming, I was rather concerned that there wouldn’t be any
apples at the local orchards this year. While we haven’t been able to pick the apples
ourselves, our favorite orchard does have their apples available in their
store. So last week when my son had the day off from school, we headed to
<a href="http://www.centergroveorchard.com/index2.php" target="_blank">Center Grove Orchard</a> near Cambridge, Iowa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My kids love apples, too, but the draw for them at this
orchard is not so much the apples. It’s <a href="http://www.centergroveorchard.com/farmfun/index.php" target="_blank">The Farmyard</a>. With a list of activities
and “venues” much too extensive to mention, The Farmyard provides hours of fun
and entertainment for kids big and small. A petting zoo, pedal carts, jumping
pillow, and giant slide are just a few, and my kids’ personal favorite: the
corn pool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If it weren’t for the fact that millions or billions, quite
possibly even trillions, of corn <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kernels</i>
had been dumped into a small arena and surrounded by straw bales, my kids
would literally have ears coming out of their ears. (Get it? Ears. Of corn.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I didn’t find any corn in their ears,
my daughter did deposit a kernel in the toilet as she undressed for the
bathtub. She had corn absolutely everywhere. In places I didn’t know corn could
reach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Corny jokes aside (get it? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corn</i>-y), my favorite part of Center Grove Orchard, when not picking
their apples myself, is the store. This is where I get my pre-picked apples,
cider, and cider donuts, among other treats. On this trip I came home with a
half-peck of Empires (we love these for eating as well as for making
applesauce) and a peck of Jonathans (my favorite for pie).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are so many versions of apple pie, I could probably
make an apple pie every week and still not exhaust all the options. In the next
few weeks I’ll be making my favorite classic apple pie, but for now I wanted a
change of pace, something a little more indulgent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Teresa over at <a href="http://homemadeiowalife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Homemade Iowa Life</a> had requested a caramel
apple pie recipe, and the recipe I had in mind certainly fit the bill for
indulgence. This pie really is one that I make just once a year, and it comes
from the book <u><a href="http://www.harvardcommonpress.com/pie/" target="_blank">Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie</a></u>,
by Ken Haedrich (2004). If you’re looking for a helpful companion on all things
pie, complete with detailed step-by-step directions, tips for success with each
recipe, as well as anecdotes, side-notes, and background on the recipes, this
book is so worth the money for its 639 pages. And like the title says, you get
over 300 recipes, for every kind of pie you can imagine, and then some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’ll admit that I haven’t yet made very many recipes from
this book. Yet. That’s one reason I started writing this blog. So in the weeks
to come, you’ll likely be seeing several pies from the pages of <u>Pie</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This week, it was the Caramel Apple-Pecan Pie (pages
229-231). Be forewarned, this pie takes a little time. It’s not difficult, but
it’s not a pie that you can throw in the oven and walk away from for an hour.
It will keep you in the kitchen for a while. (Any pie recipe that covers three
pages is going to take some effort, but any pie recipe that covers three pages
might be worth it. And this one is!) The caramel makes it indulgent, but the crunchy
pecans (incorporated three times) knock this pie out of the park. Even my four-year-old
daughter, who doesn’t like pecans, loved this pie. Her comment: “Mommy, I
really like the croutons you put on the top. They’re so crunchy!”</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What???!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Is it a crime not to
tell her?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ken Haedrich calls for using Golden Delicious apples, which
I have used for this pie in the past. This time I switched it up a little in an
attempt to lessen some of the sweetness, using half Golden Delicious and half
Jonathan. The reliable Jonathans did not disappoint, nor did they overpower
with tartness, and still allowed for a decadent pie. So if you’re in the mood
for some rich Fall flavor, spend a little time in the kitchen, after a trip to
the orchard, and indulge in this Caramel Apple-Pecan Pie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yours in pie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mindy</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Caramel
Apple-Pecan Pie<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pastry for a one-crust 9” pie (deep dish will work fine,
too)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">10 caramels, each cut into 4 pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">7 c. peeled, cored, and sliced apples (I used half Golden
Delicious, half Jonathan)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. packed light brown sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 T. fresh lemon juice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2 T. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 T. cornstarch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ tsp. cinnamon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 tsp. vanilla extract</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For the pecan crumb
topping:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¾ c. all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¾ c. pecan halves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">¼ tsp. salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6 T. butter, cut into small pieces</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For the caramel and
garnish:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3 T. butter, cut into pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 T. water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">30 caramels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Large handful of pecan halves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">½ c. chopped pecans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Line pie plate with pastry and crimp the edges. Scatter
caramel pieces in the pie shell and place in the freezer while preparing the
filling. Preheat oven to 400<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span>F.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Combine apples, brown sugar, and lemon juice in a large
bowl. Mix well and set aside. Mix sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon together in
small bowl. Stir this into the apple mixture along with the vanilla. Scrape the
filling into the chilled pie shell, smoothing the fruit with your hands. Cover
edges loosely with foil or a pie crust guard. Put pie on center rack in oven
and bake for 30 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Meanwhile, make the crumb topping. Combine flour, pecan
halves, sugar, and salt in a food processor. Pulse several times, chopping the
nuts coarsely. Scatter the butter over the dry mixture and pulse again until
mixture resembles fine crumbs. Transfer to a bowl and finish combining with
your hands to make damp, gravelly crumbs. Refrigerate until ready to use. (If
you do not have a food processor, you can use a pastry blender for making the
crumb topping. Very finely chop the pecans first.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Remove pie from oven and reduce oven temperature to 375<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">°</span>F.
Carefully dump crumbs in center of pie, spreading them evenly over the surface
with your hands. Tamp them down lightly. Return pie to oven and bake until
juices bubble thickly around the edge, 30 to 40 minutes, or longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Transfer pie to wire rack to cool for about 1 hour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While the pie is still warm – approaching the 1-hour mark
– prepare the caramel. Combine butter, water, and caramels in the top of a
double boiler. Melt caramels over (not in) barely simmering water. When melted,
whisk mixture until smooth, and then drizzle caramel over entire surface of the
pie. Immediately press pecan halves into caramel, then sprinkle chopped pecans
over the top. Let cool several hours before serving.</span></div>
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</span>Mindy | Pie on Sundayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252334057972988374noreply@blogger.com2