Do You Like Fried Pies?
By RNMSN
Oh Boy! Fried Pies!
Love to bake? Love to eat?
Oh, I know it is all about weighing less than the air you breathe and eating only items without any carbs, fat, calories, protein or salt but I am not all about that.
In fact, I am so over that whole deal that when I get the urge to run a lap or two I start counting backward from a hundred until the urge passes through my system! I pat my daughters back when she enthusiastically details her latest yoga lessons but all the while I am thinking about my latest site that is better than Facebook! (It is Justapinch.com)
It isn't that I am cooking and baking all the time. Most of the time all I do is save recipes for "one day" and keep going. But yesterday I came across a flurry of recipes about fried pies. Don't you love that term, flurry? What a nice adjective and it brings up a different image in your head depending on how it is used. To me, I see all these recipe cards flying through the air and settling around my feet, pictures up, just begging me to pick them up and head off to the kitchen!
Where was I? Oh, right, yesterday...Well fried pies to me brings up good memories. A four room house, peaches from Teekee's tree, Daddy picking at the edges of the pies as they came out of the skillet and lots of laughter. Don't eat them hot! Wait until they cool, better when they are cold the next day but they may be gone the next day so grab one and run for the sycamore tree! Yes, those are yesterday memories for sure.
I tried, once, to make the same memory but it was a disaster! Still, after reading several recipes I thought, why not try again? Got a bag of Granny's, got flour and Crisco, got a couple of hours, who knows, maybe it will work this time.
That's the funny thing about the kitchen. Sometimes the memory of a certain food or dish or sweet just gets in the way of making the thing itself! Sometimes you have to just let it all go and try something as if you have never tasted it before.
Hm mm...a lot like life isn't it? Sometimes you have to lose the memory (and the fears) of something in order to accomplish something.
Fried Apple Pies
Instructions:
7 medium Granny Smith Apples, peeled,cored and sliced
Simmer apples in a little water until just tender then add the following ingredients:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 Tablespoons cinnamon
As this is cooling make your piecrust (don't be afraid! you can do this!)
2 Cups flour
3 Heaping Tablespoons Crisco
Oh, probably 1/2 Cup cold water, maybe, I don't do piecrust the way "THEY" say to do it...long as its flaky and taste good I am not going to stress over adding a spoon full of ice water at a time...I mean really? REALLY? Like I am that particular? uh uh....good food does not need to be stressed over! Save that for something worthy of your stressing over like how many Dannon Yoghurt tops you can get donated for the National Breast Cancer Foundation! Now That is Worthy of Stress!
Sorry, got lost there...oh right, water...
No salt either, but thats just me. I do not roll all the dough out at one time and use a pretty coffee saucer to carefully cut 4 inch circles...Thats why all my pies are misshapen too...they are also gone at this point in time, 3 hours after they were made but thats OK...be precise if you like...I just pick up a bit of dough in my hand and roll it in a cirle (more or less) there is one thing I am sure of and that is piecrust hates being handled! Sorta like teenagers, eh?
I put a tablespoon of apple mixture (not too runny, stick with just the apples...the sauce was just to make it taste good) towards one edge of the circle and fold it over. I tried to make it pretty with the fork but I think I was a bit heavyhanded with it and the edges broke so I just carefully mashed the edges together with my fingers.
One recipe said wet your fingertip in water and use that; Hubby suggested he could wet his finger with his tongue and seal em right up...you guys have to decide how you want your edges crimped :)
Now just fry them up. They cook fast, only 3-4 minutes per side. See the black mark?That is delicious carbon dating, should anyone ask!
I used vegetable oil but if you want to be real ole timey you should use lard for the piecrust and to fry them. Then when you eat them you will taste the lard on the roof of you mouth, just like in 1957 or thereabouts!
I hope you will try something you remember from long ago or something you were in fear of and I hope you succeed! I bet you will!
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Comments
haha thank you!! Im off to check out your writing Im curious about your avatar! :)
They sound so good.
well they are southern! aint we good? :) you know we are!
LOL!!
I don't eat fried pies, BUT - I absolutely loved the way you wrote about them!
ok, where have you been all my life? Can you please come be my cook? lol, great hub!
ahhh come on femme be brave!! its not like yougotta go to the fair and eat fried pickles! :)lory they are baaaadddddd!!
and thank you stayingalivemoma :)
funny too cause I really cannot cook...baby girl has her culinary degree/out of self defense Im sure cause I think cooking like for real food? is boring :)
good thing hubby cooks eh?
Your style makes me smile! These sound WONDERFUL. I will try them. My sweet tooth and tummy thank you! (My hips do not!)
well thats why you just build them and leave em on the counter so hubby and other males in the near vicinity will eat them :)
I got one...that satisfied my memory craving and the other seven??? well...they must have just been carried out the door by the scorpions...they get real big here in the sonoran desert!
just ask Will if you dont think its so!! :)
love to you!!
LOVED your running monologue about "flurry" and how sometimes you need to forget in order to try again...and all the rest. Outstanding read. BTW, I get in the way of myself sometimes...that carbon-dating would have been a huge discouragement to me. But it doesn't have to be, does it? Voted up and awesome.
hello Sally! thank you and yes, the burnt part can be a bad thing thats why I made light (haha) of it...gotta laugh sometimes eh?
A fun read.Thanks for the recipe too! I enjoy how you make cooking a human thing again,not all the perfectionist stuff out there.
I know!! like whoever cooks doesnt make a mess? funny isnt it! thank you Alladream! :)
You have a great sense of humor. I really like your writing style. The recipe sounds like it would be delicious so I'll try it soon and try not to stress over the crust :) Thanks for a fun and awesome read.
thank you Becky!! yes it is delicious!! and no, dont tress lol too many other things to really be stressed about dont you think?
frie fruit pies are goooodddd!!! ha I can hear Andy Griffith saying it now!
thank you so much for your comment!
Thanks for a good recipe, I will try it.
Thank you LuluSue!!
Alright! Finally someone who has the same mentality as myself. Counting carbs and such is just straight bologna! Cooking just to cook is the way to go. Food is not meant to be torture. I'm a really poor dessert cook, but this is right up my alley. Thanks for the recipe.
Wow, I didn't even know these existed!!!
yippee Joe!! bet you catch grief for your last name eh? :) thats OK cause you are southern to the core I can tell!! :) I just did apple cause thats what I had but oh my word, make these in peach, just barely simmer them if at all and you will never ever eat another from Mickey D's :)
hello Simone! oh yes these are so totally old. Even older than I am!! :)
Perfect timing! I make homemade doughtnuts every year for a Halloween open house, and get a little bored standing by the hot oil! This year I'll have some of these pies ready to toss in as well, and I can offer a bit of variety. Thanks! (I've bookmarked it!)
oh cool!! I hope you have a hub on the doughnuts cause Ive always wanted to build them!! I did bagels for the first time today from K9keystrokes hub :) I need doughnuts now!
Love it! My granny used to make fried apple pies with dried apples on a wood stove. Mercy! Enjoyed the hub.
thank you resspenser!! I love the dried fruit fried pies as well but do not make them...I get in a hurry and dont wait for the fruit to rehydrate...I need to work on that...but fresh peachefried pies? omg!!! make you slap the door!! can we type omg here on HP??? uh oh....:)
I have eaten them all my life. My neighbor used to make fried chocolate pies...I don't know how to make them, do you?
no but would chocolate pudding/just a spoonful/work? Interesting :)
Pudding wouldn't work, it was more like a fudge consistency. Think I'll try that. let you know...it might just work. Kids will probably eat that right up.
oh I am so on my way!! fudge insides :) gimme please? and write it up when you get it how bout? oh boy cant wait :)
snakeslane 8 months ago
Mmmm...yummy! And funny! Can't wait to try this.