MLT Ways In on the 4th
The apple pie is in the oven
I am sitting here eagerly awaiting the apple pie to bake. Funny how things change. When I was a very young bride many years ago I would bake all the time. Apple pie, or any other sort of pie for that matter wasn’t a treat. Every Sunday without fail I would bake a pie or make tarts or a trifle or cakes. It was tradition. Somewhere over the many years that tradition went out of the window and now baking is an occasional thing. Except for bread which I make as needed but even that gets made in a breadmaker so even though it is all fresh ingredients, the manual aspect of it has gone. Mind you, that said, I wouldn’t swap my breadmaker for anything. For us, one of the reasons I don’t bake often is we try to eat healthy so a never ending supply of cakes, cookies and pastries isn’t a good thing. Another thing is the lack of visitors. We live in the middle of nowhere so visitors are few and far between. I did buy apples and cook them but I have to confess to also buying Pilsbury ready made pie crusts that you just roll and bake. This got me to thinking about our Mums. First I thought that my husband’s Mum would be very disgruntled at the thought of his wife baking him a pie using ready made pie crusts and then I envisioned my Mum shaking her head in disbelief that her daughter was using them. Then I imagined the two of them up in heaven having a good old complaining session together lol. I would hazard a guess though that if they were here and came for dinner they would woof it down. I hadn’t forgotten how to glaze a pie so the finished product will look, smell and taste delicious. Another thing for sure is my husband and I will both enjoy it enormously. And there it is………