pied beauty
in the oven right now is an apple pie, made possible by three things:
- the peter kump pie class i took ages ago with terry. the two most valuable things i got out of it were the conviction that mixing pie crust by hand is dead easy and nick malgieri's recipe for flaky pie crust.
- the freezer. i know, i know, you've heard it before. but i was able to pull out a container of crumb topping from may and sprinkle it atop the mound of apple filling without turning a hair.
- the apple machine. this is a gizmo that peels, cores, and slices apples in a single pass — overkill for a single apple, but very useful when you're processing three pounds. it performed beautifully on the granny smiths, which are firm, but not so well on the macintoshes, which are...kinda squishy.
die, apples, die
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I am with you on all three points. The apple gizmo is one of the few kitchen gizmos (as opposed to small appliances) that I think is worth a damn. I will add to your list, for the runt-like among us, that pie crust by hand is damn easy if you do it on the kitchen table. Otherwise, I need a stool.
Posted by: terry | October 10, 2003 12:18 PM