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I used the Vorlon Mother’s recipe to make an apple pie tonight. I like my pie cool so I’ll taste it at breakfast tomorrow morning. I found the process interesting enough to write a blog entry about it.
I used a store-bought crust for the pie. In her recipe, she said to use ½ cup of brown sugar, a quarter cup of white sugar and a tablespoon of flower. I will admit to being a bit anal retentive about instructions. I sifted all the dry ingredients into a bowl. To my amazement, the brown sugar was still soft. It had to be in storage for months, if not years. Her recipe then said she sprinkles on some nutmeg and cinnamon. I wondered how much is a sprinkle? Is it a quarter teaspoon or an eight? I “sprinkled” nutmeg and cinnamon into my other dry ingredients. I shifted it into the bowl. Then I put all the dry ingredients into a plastic bag and thoroughly shook the bag until it seemed thoroughly mixed.
As I was doing this, a thought occurred to me. If I were going to make apple pies in the future, I would mix enough ingredients to make 20 pies, mix it thoroughly and then just take out what I needed as I did a pie.
She also said to crumble two tablespoons of butter into the pie. Crumble butter? How do you crumble butter? I cut to tablespoons from a stick from the frig and then cut little pieces from it with a paring knife into the pie.
The pie has been cooked and is cooling. I’ll give you a review tomorrow.
Posted by The Vorlon at June 12, 2006 8:28 PM