A Year of Pies challenge
Posted on
06/08/2012
by act_one_shotgun
- Tags:!photos only, cherries, liquors, pies and tarts
I’ve been presented with a cool challenge: a friend of mine and her sister have asked for a sort of pie-of-the-month club. I’ll be making them a pie each, every month, for a year. The only guideline is that it must be seasonal.
This month’s is CHERRY, by request. I boiled cherries with sugar, cornstarch, vanilla and bourbon. Into the crusts, then topped with a sugar-cookie-ish crumble. Very sweet, but I know at least one of these pies is going to a couple of little girls who will probably appreciate it!
Mexican vanilla is amazing. That giant bottle was a Christmas gift from my grandmother.
The next 11 pies will be my choice. I think I have 12 different pies living in my brain, but seasonal is going to be fun!
Although I have a sweet tooth, I hope at least a couple of your monthly pies will be savory ones--just to mix things up.
I love the stuff but have no earthly idea where I can find it other than to go shopping in Mexico.
You should try making pound cake with your Mexican Vanilla--it's wonderful!
:D
Beanilla.com has Mexican vanilla:
http://www.beanilla.com/extracts-favori
Thanks!
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Chocolate chess pie is a southern style pie. It's a fudgy delight that I remember eating as a child. That and regular chess pie are delicious!
You might aught to try the Bell's Best Cookbook (the first one in the series is the best) for these two recipes. It's the Bible of true southern cooking and it has been for over 20 years.
Steak pie is a savory pie that I find on the buffet bar sometimes at my favorite Chinese restaurant. It's another pie that I wish I had a recipe for.
I'll be following your pie-making adventures.
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The name comes from the fact that this nearly 5 inches thick (nearly 800 pages of recipes) cookbook came from the people who worked at the Bell telephone company. Used to be, you had to know someone who worked at the telephone company and then sweet talk them into buying it for you from their company store.
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Mmmmmm, chess pie, craving now. I could go for a slice with a big ole glass of milk; it's been too many years since I've had one. Pie crust scares me LOL; I may have to bribe my mom to make me a chess pie to slice up and put in the freezer.
As an aside, I once lost my restaurant liquor licence for two weeks for having Mexican vanilla on the premises. I challenged the jerk inspector to drink it, he wouldn't and I still lost my licence. The worst part was they confiscated my vanilla.
They look delicious! =)