A couple of weeks ago I bought a bag of apples at my local farmer's market with the intent of making several things, which never quite happened. I inspected the apples last night and found that one or two of them had gone soft. Obviously I needed to cook them up, quick!
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My first apple pie |
Someone in this house (I won't name names) is not overly fond of my apple crisp because it's not sweet enough. So I decided to try my hand at apple pie.
I dug through my
Joy of Cooking (I wonder if anyone in my family has my grandmother's "secret" recipe?) and roughly followed the basic apple pie recipe. I followed the instructions for a 9" crust, and then discovered I have a 10" pie pan. Oops. I will need to fix that if I make this again. But it covered enough., and into the over it went.
Isn't it a thing of beauty? (not) I am obviously not ready to compete with
Ever So Humble Pie Company. The whole kitchen smelled delicious, regardless.
But wait! There's more!
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French Apple Cake (which passed Poison Check) |
I had more apples than would fit in the pie. While flipping through my cookbook, I came across something called French Apple Cake which seems to be an upside-down cake. It was an odd recipe: all of the sugar goes into the fruit; the batter is unsweetened. And there's not much batter. I gave it a try. I had a hard time spreading the batter over the apples because there wasn't that much of it. So this thing ended up being mostly apples with a bit of biscuit/cake over it. I didn't had a chance to flip it out of the pan; it was still a little too warm to chance it. But as you can see from the photo, I did a poison check (there was even less of it left by the time I finished writing this). Maybe this will make it easier to turn upside-down?
We did not get a chance to try the pie (it was late by the time it came out of the oven). If the taste-test of the apple cake is any indication, I think pie will be a keeper. But that awaits the final verdict of the Judge.
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