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Grill Sergeant's Apple Pie - A US Department of Defense recipe, from "The Official Website of the Pentagon Channel" 6 cups thinly sliced apples 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 tbsp butter 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground nutmeg pie crust (recipe follows) Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Prepare pastry for pie crust. Combine sugar and cinnamon (adjust sugar amount according to tartness of... - 2012/01/08

Frugal Houswife Apple Pie - Excerpted from "The American Frugal Housewife", 1832. When you make apple pies, stew your apples very little indeed; just strike them through, to make them tender. Some people do not stew them at all, but cut them up in very thin slices, and lay them in the crust. Pies made in this way may retain more of the spirit of the apple; but I do not think... - 2012/01/06

More Vintage Pumpkin Pies - Here's a couple more vintage pumpkin pie recipes from "The Woman's Institute Library of Cookery". PUMPKIN PIE NO. 1.--There are very few persons with whom pumpkin pie is not a favorite. While it is especially popular in the autumn, it may be made at any time of the year. Sometimes pumpkin is dried or canned in the household or commercially for this... - 2011/06/29

Coming up on cake season again! - I really must try to do more cakes just to keep this blog going, but with a full time job and two kids, as well as a wonderful husband, I'm lucky to get done the ones I do. This year started early with a special Sushi cake for my dear friend Kat. She and I could eat sushi all day long, so when her birthday came around, I knew exactly what to put o... - 2011/03/05

Wow! It's been a year! - Well I can't believe that I haven't updated my blog in over a year, but it has been a busy one. I've gone back to work at a real job in a doctor's office, and life is starting to really be great. I have been baking as well and this July really gave me a run for my baking money! In my new office there are eight of us and 5 of the eight have birthda... - 2010/07/27

The Nature of Pies and Pastries - From "Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4" Pastry is a shortened dough that is made of flour, water, salt, and fat and used in the preparation of desserts. Chief among these deserts are pies. These are made by baking foods between two crusts of pastry or with a single crust, which may be an upper or a lower one. Originally pies were not i... - 2010/02/15