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5 pie crusts |
Today I have made up my recipe for 5 single crust pie crusts (or 2 double and a single) because I am making two very special people their favorite pies to send with my husband in the morning when he leaves for work. He can deliver them for me and they will still be nice and warm. That sounds like a great Christmas surprise to me! I have the pastry made up and patted out into 5 disks and wrapped in waxed paper then dropped into a plastic bag and stashed into the refrigerator.
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Home canned apple pie filling |
I will use my last can of homemade Apple pie filling for one pie and then I am making an very old fashioned Raisin pie.
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Raisins simmering |
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Snicker doodles |
Next this morning I am making up a batch of Snicker doodles
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2010/08/old-fashioned-snickerdoodles.html then a recipe of sugar cookie dough
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2013/12/baking-christmas-cookies.html and a batch of dough for painted roll out cookies.
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2013/02/painted-hearts-cut-out-cookies-for.html I will bake the Snicker doodles today and store the made up cookie dough to bake off tomorrow after my marathon trip to both the butcher and the market.
Since I have been troubled with bad knees I was counting the days to the injection appointment. But, the injections bother me about a day and a half but then I jump up and feel 30 again for awhile! Today is my first feel like 30 day. Thus the reason I have postponed the marketing.
Planned Christmas Buffet:
This Christmas I am planning a buffet to be left out and enjoyed at will. The ham for Thanksgiving was such a hit I am repeating it.
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2013/03/baking-whole-ham-for-easter.html I also ordered several pounds of the butchers delicious homemade potato salad (yes I did!) But I will throw together some baked beans. Thinking of a huge, maybe 4 pound platter of fresh strawberries and some chocolate ganache for dipping! Then our other "likes" include a platter of ice cold shrimp cocktail, a cheese ball with crackers, assorted bread.
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2011/12/old-fashioned-persimmon-pudding-my.html Assorted beverages on ice and maybe a bit of hot buttered rum!
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2010/11/hot-buttered-rum.html
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Spiced Pecans |
Some spiced nuts, and of course veggies and dip. Dessert will be Christmas cookies and a batch of Christmas rice crispy treats with red and green holiday sprinkles! Then maybe, just maybe, I will do up a persimmon pudding with whipped cream for good measure.
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Raisin and Apple Pies |
Monday Morning 7:30 AM: The pies have finished baking and are packed for Brian's deliveries!
Since they are still hot I dropped a cooling rack into the bottom of each of two large tote bags. Next I covered the rack with a clean tea towel and put the aluminum pie plate in a second aluminum pie plate to sturdy up the base. Then I rolled 2 additional clean tea towels into cylinders and used them as bumpers to keep the pie from sliding.
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Tucked away to travel |
The last step was to tear, fold, and enclose two ample sheets of fresh aluminum foil for the pis to be covered with when cool.
2 comments:
What a nice Christmas present someone will be getting. All of our Christmas cookies have been eaten! Oh, well we are doing a sandwich buffet for Christmas eve and I do not have to cook!
Diane these look so good, what a tease, I love fruit pies. Your friends are really lucky people. I have just finished in the kitchen tonight, ham is glazed, tomatoe and onion casserole is cut ready to assemble in the morning. I have had Deacon all day and now he has gone home two more have arrived to help with the rocky road chocolate christmas trees, these have become a tradition and the boys enjoy helping because they get to eat the leftovers.
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