Okay, another apple post: we made apple pie with a Gluten-Free Pantry crust yesterday. Not exactly a success. 20 tablespoons of vegetable shortening (because we couldn't use any butter) made it a very greasy dough that we couldn't roll out. Unfortunately, the box didn't say "reserve some mix to flour your rolling pin" and I didn't have any other GF mix in the house. And I was out of wax paper. So we "pat-patted" it into my pie plate, getting it all over the floor and everybody.
They loved the apple-cinnamon mixture, though. And ate it even after we dumped the top crust on, finding cracks to pull the apples out of.
The pie itself came out okay, very crunchy. It probably would've been okay if we could've actually rolled it; ours looked more like a cobbler or biscuit topping. They both ate a big piece as soon as it cooled off (rapidly in the freezer), very proud of their pie, if not that enamored of the crust and just eating the apples. So, I'll probably try it again.
I just want to make them a glorious apple pie like the ones on the cover of all the magazines right now (I think Eating Well's is my favorite pic). And if you want to read a great homage to pie, try Humble Pie, which will make you yearn for a slice and reach for your rolling pin.
All right for you but I have to pick the apples first. The tree is 30ft high and 40 ft wide withapples spread around. The ladder is heavy and the apples are large, hitting one pound each.
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