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Monday, August 24, 2009

The First One






Sunday afternoon I found myself home alone with nothing but a basket of apples to keep me company. Everyone else was off either camping,at the beach or working. It was cool for a late August afternoon and I wanted to be nowhere else but home.

The apples were the ones I had gotten on Saturday afternoon when Buddy and I took a ride up See Canyon. I tied on my apron and got out my favorite pie cookbook "Country Pies - A Seasonal Sampler" by Lisa Yockelson.copyright 1988. I guess it is offically vintage now that it is over 20 years old. I turned to the Autumn Country Pies section. It starts out saying "Just about the time children go back to school, I am in the kitchen making batches of dried fruit and spice mincemeat to use in pie fillings with apples,pears,cranberries and quarts of apple cider syrup."

The recipe I use is actually for a cinnamon pear pie with a walnut streusel, but I just substitute the apples for the pears, and the walnuts were ones I had in the freezer from last fall that I had gotten at The Avila Barn.

So we made the pie and had it still warm after supper. And yes, it did taste like fall.

3 comments:

  1. Fantastic! I swear I can smell those apples through the screen, and taste the pie. Mmmmhhhh. Just what I'm in the mood for tonight. I'll miss you, Kary! Will be back on Thursday with lots to show and tell. :)

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  2. Mmmmmmmm......... wow.

    And the Cinnamon Pear Pie with Walnut Streusel Sounds DIVINE. I am going to have to experiment with that one.

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  3. I can not make a pie crust to save my life!! This looks delish!

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