Homemade in Minutes ; a Pie Is the Apple (and Cherry) of His Eye

Columbia Daily Tribune › January 23, 2008

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At a loss for a gift for my husband, Bill, at Christmas, I decided to give something that will keep on giving. He is correct, I do not cook and bake like I used to. He had been bringing this to my attention all fall, saying he never got a pie anymore. He was right. As he opened a very pretty box that had lots of packing in it, he came to a small pie-shaped plastic container. Inside were pictures of every kind of pie I could find in a whole stack of magazines and a note that he could choose his pie each month.

On Christmas Day, he and our son, Harold, chose chocolate cream for the crust I had ready. Pies are not hard to make, but they are part of the cooking lessons I seemed to miss growing up. I did have to make a pie for my college class, and I did OK. I taught junior and senior high school home economics classes, and we always made pies. That is a real experience with a room full of seventh- or eighth-graders. They would eat the pies they made, but I questioned whether I would some days.

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Homemade in Minutes ; a Pie Is the Apple (and Cherry) of His Eye

Today, Jan. 23, is National Pie Day, which is a very good excuse to make a pie. Bill chose early in the month to have a lemon meringue pie for January...

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