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I just harvested my first batch of pie cherries from the trees I planted years ago.
Does anybody have a good recipe for cherry pie?
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
Ooo....I don't have a good filling recipe, but I have the mother of all piecrusts.
A few years ago, Cooks Illustraited came up with one using vodka instead of water(the alcohol doesn't activate the gluten in the flour like water does). I use home-rendered lard instead of shortening, and when I make apple pie I use applejack or inexpensive calvados instead of the vodka. I've also had pretty amazing results using a low-juniper gin for savory meat pies.
Those all are great. I gotta make the filling at least tomorrow.
I usually don't make a crust from dust, but my #2 daughter is home from college, and she still enjoys - even after all these years - do projects with her old man. This would be good.
Cobbler was canned cherries (usually), but canned peaches were popular too.
On top of that was a squat layer of Bisquick, the busy mother's economical little helper.
Do you have something more elegant?
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Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
When I asked, she was quiet for a second, and said "Honey, I don't even know where a written recipe for that might be!" ...My grandma's idea of a recipe is "well, I do *this*, and I add a pinch of *that*..."
I shouldn't complain, since I do the same thing. I'm trying to find my cobbler recipe, since I...."do *this*, and I add a pinch of *that*..."
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