Buttermilk Pie

Wow!  So pretty!

I think this is the last recipe I have from our visit to the east coast this summer. (Hint! Hint!  That means you should come visit me Grandma, so we can bake!) This recipe was actually a surprise to me. I came back from camp and found a bunch of pie pictures on my sister's camera...but that's great because now I can blog about it!

BTW, I guess I should give some credit to my Mom for taking all these pictures for me while I was away at camp. =)

Grandma in the "pie crust zone" of intense concentration.  Maybe that's why they always turn out so nicely.

It's like a sculptured work of art.

Look out everyone, she's got her rolling pin and crust.  You never know what may happen next...

This is what happens. This is base of the pie which looks a little like mashed potatoes.

Be careful that it doesn't overflow!

My 96-year-old great-grandmother eating a piece of pie.

I know how much grandmothers like to brag about their grand-kids,  so I'd like to take a moment to tell you how incredible my Great-Grandmother Brown is...

Almost everyday she'll sit in her rocking chair and crochet a blanket (baby blankets, sofa throws, etc.) either to give away or to donate to my cousins' school fundraisers, etc.
   
She likes to have some background entertainment going on while she's crocheting so the TV is usually on the Game Show Network to watch her favorite game shows. She tops it off at 8PM with an episode of "Little House on the Prairie" and then goes off to bed at 9PM.  Oh, I almost forgot...she also likes to read and works on word-finds most afternoons too!  When you're 96 you can pretty much do what you want and get away with it, including having a stash of unending M&Ms by your side during the day.

Ingredients:

1 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp. flour
dash salt
3 egg yolks, beaten
4 tbsp. margarine (softened)
2 cups buttermilk
beaten egg whites  (with mixer)
9 inch unbaked pie shell.

Directions:

Blend the first five ingredients then carefully add the buttermilk with a whisk.

Fold in the beaten egg whites. You can do this with a whisk too.  Pour into unbaked pie shell.

Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then reduce to 350 degrees for about 35 minutes.

Unless your pie pan is extra large it may not all go in, so be careful!

GB2- God Bless, Go Bake!

Shoofly Pie

People ate the pie so quickly so unfortunately this is all that
was left to take a picture of - the last piece!

This summer has been filled with many sights and states and foods and friends. The last thing left on my "Grammie would you please make this list" was a shoofly pie! I never really liked the idea of eating something that had a fly in its name but I made an exception with this recipe. News Flash! It contains no flies, but I have a feeling that it attracts flies...thus the name "shoo fly!"

Grandma stays very focused even when you ask her to "smile for the camera" or maybe she was tired from all the picture taking. =)

Everything all mashed up, with our handy, dandy pastry blender.

"Amazing Reaction!"

No, this is not a pumpkin pie, it's a shoofly pie.  It's not very good at shooing away the flies though. =P

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 rounded tbsp. Crisco
1 cup molasses
1 egg beaten
3/4 cup hot water
1 tsp. baking soda
9 inch unbaked pie crust



Directions:
1. In a large bowl add flour, brown sugar, and Crisco and blend with a pastry blender or fork. (And as grandma said, "blend until your arm is tired.") Lay aside 1/2 cup of the crumbs.

2. Pour molasses and whisked egg into the large bowl and stir. In a separate small bowl combine water and baking soda and carefully pour this into the large bowl. After you finish stirring, pour contents of large bowl into pie pan then sprinkle the 1/2 cup crumbs on top.

 3. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 min.



 This little baker went to Aunt Shannon's, this little baker went to Grandma's, and finally this little baker went to Aunt Lori's. After all that, she's back home and baking in her own kitchen with her own potholders, pans, and dishcloths to clean up all of her own messes...

Sorry it took soooo long to post this. School has officially started which ends the late nights of blogging and the sleeping in AND the extra time to bake but I'll see what I can do during the school year...

GB2- God Bless, Go BAKE!!!

Peach Pie

While visiting family back in PA, I had the awesome, wonderful, stupendous opportunity to watch and document my Aunt Lori baking her famous peach pie!  Aunt Lori is a good cook and that's a good thing because she has 3 hungry guys in her house to feed.  She's very neat like my Grandma and makes things so perfectly. 



Famous Chambersburg, PA peaches!

When I Googled peach pie there were around 10 blogs solely devoted to coming up with dozens of ways to make peach pie.

We both decided, really quickly, that we would rely on blender power!

I loved baking with my Aunt Lori, but she had a rule, "only pictures of the food please." 
But I managed to get a shot of her hand. =)

1,2,3...wait a second, 4,5.   
It took awhile for my camera to work but at least everyone was smiling.
Aunt Lori's family enjoying delicious peach pie while watching
the tractor pull at the Shippensburg Fair!

Soothing peach pie and thunderous tractors - what a combination!

Ingredients:
10 inch pie crust (unbaked)
1 cup sour cream
2 Tbsp. flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 egg beaten
2 1/2 cup fresh peaches

Combine and mix ingredients until smooth (except peaches). Add peaches to mixture and pour into unbaked pie crust. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.

Streusel topping
1/2 cup flour
4 Tbsp. butter (soft)
6 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Mix with a fork. Put on hot pie. Put a few chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans, or almonds) on top; return to oven for 10 minutes.

There were a lot of us there, so everyone got a small piece.    

While at the fair we won three goldfish, but unfortunately they didn't live very long. We couldn't help but give them silly names like Plunger, Flushy, and T.P. We had fun with them while they were around but sadly they died on the second day. Well maybe they ended up in the ocean, that's where Nemo went...right?

GB2- God Bless, Go BAKE!!!