Yummmmmmy

[953 nut 62,647]

We hope your sweet tooth is ready to celebrate National Lemon Cream Pie Day on November 29. (Today we commonly call this lemon meringue pie.) Although this time of year is more typically associated with pumpkin pie, we’ll take any excuse to celebrate any kind of pie—especially a pie that’s been around this long.

Food historians believe lemon desserts have been around since the Middle Ages! Whipped cream, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer: it didn’t show up until the 16th century. It first appeared in recipes in Italy in the mid 1500s and then traveled to France and showed up in recipes there just after 1600. Somewhere between then and now, someone had the brilliant idea to marry them together in a way that’s basically sunshine baked into a pie dish.

While lemon custards, puddings, and pies have been made since Medieval times, meringue was perfected in the 17th century. Lemon meringue pie, as it is known today, is a 19th-century product. The earliest recorded recipe was attributed to Alexander Frehse, a Swiss baker from Romandy.

 

 

[ebinmaine 75,082]

🥧 

[Beap52 1,702]

I do like my pie.  I've called the meringue "calf slobbers" since before I was married.  The old man I used  to work for would fuss at our local diner he said all they served was "jam pies"  "Two crusts jammed together with almost no filling".  

 

I made these pies this morning for mom's Christmas party today.  She likes to have it early as to not interfere with the other activities during this time of year.  There's a blackberry cobbler (from blackberries we grew). There's a cherry (from cherries we picked/grew).  There's a chocolate pie in  the background  that our son in law really likes--it's more of a brownie in a pie crust. (From Coco powder we bought.)  Both pie crusts were from scratch.   People have asked me what do you know about making pies?  I tell them I figured if I could build a house, I could certainly build a pie.  It gives my wife a little relief from the kitchen.

 

I certainly wouldn't turn down a lemon pie with a healthy heaping  calf slobbers on top!