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A promising set up |
With the temperatures dropping, summer is long gone and autumn is slowly leaving us too. To cross some final things off of my autumn to do list, I decided to make an apple pie. I had the apples all set, all of the ingredients,
this recipe (filling only), and the promise of an easy, no bake crust. I was ready. I started peeling the apples; what I thought would have taken 20 minutes at best, took me around an hour. My arm was tired, my fingers were near sliced off so I just said "too bad" and decided not to finish peeling the amount of apples required. I made the easy crust in two minutes (all that was required was an addition of water) and I shrugged off the fact that I needed to dust it with flour. Well, guess what: I needed flour. On top of the crust dough being too sticky, I also lacked a vital rolling pin. This wasn't going as planned, so I decided to improvise. I rolled the sticky dough out in my hand and made different shapes that I could fill with the apple/sugar/cinnamon filling. It went from being an apple pie to apple turnover mutations on crack. I had so much apple filling leftover that I dumped it into a store bought crust (that I was planning on using for a pudding pie) and threw both "creations" into the oven.
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Post-exhaustive peeling but still, a glimmer of hope |
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Embarrassment |
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Don't let them fool you; they look better than they tasted...and that's saying something |
They came out decent at best. Because the crust dough wasn't rolled out, the apple mutations were too crusty and thick. As much as I love pastry crusts, too much crust and not enough filling do not make a good combo. As for the sad excuse of an apple pie with no crust cover, the apple filling dried out and, though I ate the whole damn thing, I enjoyed it only a little bit. Oh well. I'm not discouraged and will definitely try making a pie again during the next apple season, but for now, I'm going to turn off the oven and leave it to the pros: Mrs. Betty Crocker
Happy Halloweekend!
1 comment:
Mmmm...these look positively scrummy, Stephanie! I LOVE apples during the fall season! :)
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