Yummmmmmy

[953 nut 62,657]

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 75,099]

🥧 

[Beap52 1,705]

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!

[ebinmaine 75,099]

9 hours ago, Beap52 said:

these pies

 

Here at T & E Wheelhorse Stables we have almost no dessert. We don't celebrate religious holidays as do most folks. We don't have or attend many functions or events, on purpose. 

Birthdays, to us, are THE annual holidays. As such, we stretch em right out. 

Neither of us is a huge fan of most cakes. Trina doesn't like chocolate or peanut butter. ( I believe she may be mentally deranged.)

We do both enjoy cheesecake. 

 

This year Trina's daughter and family came down for a visit at Thanksgiving. 

Trina made 3 pies. 2 on purpose,  1 because there was extra accessories for flavoring from an exaggerated recipe online. 

 

We ended up with a pumpkin cheesecake pie, a cherry pie, and a modified ingredients pumpkin/ squash pie that was excellent.  

 

Large Bears, such like as myself, were very happy with this. 

[wallfish 18,693]

4 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Trina doesn't like chocolate or peanut butter. ( I believe she may be mentally deranged.)

Yeah, that's not mentally healthy! 

[Handy Don 14,907]

6 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Trina doesn't like chocolate or peanut butter

One aunt really didn’t like chocolate and boasted about there being only 3% of Americans who shared that dislike (I don’t know if this is true or not, but it sounded good). My “no, thank you” is coconut. To each their own. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Handy Don

[ebinmaine 75,099]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

One aunt really didn’t like chocolate and boasted about there being only 3% of Americans who shared that preference (I don’t know if this is true or not, but it sounded good). My “no, thank you” is coconut. To each their own. 

 

There's some interesting science behind one's aversion to chocolate. 

 

People with very strong senses tend more to get a stronger sensation of certain things in the chocolate. 

Those very things are what makes it sweet to most, but can be quite bitter or even offer the sensation of vomit. Yes you read that right. Chocolate tastes like regurgitation to some.