As hot as it is, no one should be turning on an oven. But I saw a recipe for a Shaker lemon pie and I just had to try it. It called for slicing 4 whole lemons up very thin, skin and all. Then you add 2 cups of sugar, stir it around and let it
macerate for 24 hours. OK...weird but I gave it a try. Just before filling the pie you mix in 3 eggs.
I tried a new crust recipe that was great. A bit of the juice oozed over the top crust when I crimped it but that's ok. I don't like my pies to look perfect.
It baked for an hour and smelled heavenly. The crust was beautiful.
I think the leaked lemon juice made it look even more scrumptious.
And then I cut it and we tried it. At first a wave of wonderful lemon rolls over your tongue. And then the sourest lemon taste ever punches you right in your taste buds.
It went straight into the garbage! Interesting that the lemon looking guy on the side of the garbage bag has a smile on his face. I guess he was happy to get the whole pie. Or he was laughing at me.
To distract me from my pie failure, I put out a few black cats.
As of today it is 99 days until halloween. Not to mention that it is also 99 degrees. The redware is out with other Fall things coming soon.
As hot as it is, no one should be turning on an oven. But I saw a recipe for a Shaker lemon pie and I just had to try it. It called for slicing 4 whole lemons up very thin, skin and all. Then you add 2 cups of sugar, stir it around and let it macerate for 24 hours. OK...weird but I gave it a try. Just before filling the pie you mix in 3 eggs.
I tried a new crust recipe that was great. A bit of the juice oozed over the top crust when I crimped it but that's ok. I don't like my pies to look perfect.
It baked for an hour and smelled heavenly. The crust was beautiful.
I think the leaked lemon juice made it look even more scrumptious.
And then I cut it and we tried it. At first a wave of wonderful lemon rolls over your tongue. And then the sourest lemon taste ever punches you right in your taste buds.
It went straight into the garbage! Interesting that the lemon looking guy on the side of the garbage bag has a smile on his face. I guess he was happy to get the whole pie. Or he was laughing at me.
To distract me from my pie failure, I put out a few black cats.
As of today it is 99 days until halloween. Not to mention that it is also 99 degrees. The redware is out with other Fall things coming soon.
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