Happy π Day!

Marah:  Why don’t you post your award-winning apple pie recipe for Pi Day?

Michelle:  Pi Day?  As in Pi=MC2?

Marah:  No!

Michelle:  Oh, that other math equation?  Something constant and  3.14159
something, something for forever?

Marah:  Yes!  Every March 14th people get all excited about Pi Day and we get excited about your apple pie!  We haven’t had that in so long!

Michelle:  Oh, I better not make that right in the middle of our diets!

Marah:  Ha ha ha!  Do you remember that time an old friend came to visit and you made your apple pie?  She had one tiny slice and you and I ate the entire pie except that one tiny piece?!

Michelle:  Oh my gosh – yes!  We were under great duress at that time!  We never should have taken on the babies….(referring to our preschool which included a few babies still in loaded diapers).

Marah:  No!  We never should have!  But then we never would have started The Classy Pearl!  Ya live, ya learn!  Ha!

Michelle:  Alright – everybody should experience this apple pie; I love to share a good recipe.  And this recipe is award-winning; yes, it sure is!  It has taken 2nd Place at the Brookville Community Picnic and was auctioned off for more than $50!  I might not have found a place in life to use Pi but let me tell ya, I can make a really tasty apple pie!  Here is the complete recipe:   enjoy!!

High Hopes by Doris Day

Michelle’s Apple Pie Recipe

Ingredients:                                                        Topping:

½ c. granulated sugar                                         ½ c. melted Butter

2 Tbs. flour                                                       ½ c. granulated sugar

1 ½  tsp. cinnamon                                            ½ c. flour

¼ tsp salt                                                            

3 Granny Smith apples  (peeled, cored, sliced)                                  

3 red apples (peeled, cored, sliced)

1   9” pie shell (homemade only)

Mix ½ cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, salt, and the cinnamon together and toss with the apples.  Heap into the pie shell.  Combine the melted butter, ½ cup sugar, and ½ cup flour to make a thin paste.  Taste test to see if consistency is right – HA!  Taste test again, if needed.  And again.  Dip one apple slice into the paste and taste test that way.  Maybe once more.  Spread paste over apples, coating evenly.  Lick the spoon!  You can, but I don’t, place the pie in a brown paper bag and close securely with paper clips or staples.  Place the pie in center of the oven rack, taking care that the paper bag does not come in contact with any interior oven surface or it will catch on fire.  This is why I don’t use the paper bag!  Also, I’m afraid a staple will get lost somewhere in the pie, which wouldn’t win any prize and could lead to a lawsuit and jail time!  Bake 1 hour at 400° but keep checking on it after 40 minutes to be sure it doesn’t burn.  Allow to cool about 30 minutes but then serve with real vanilla ice cream while it is still warm. 

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