My love affair with pies began at age 7. It was one of those lazy summer days in which I spent the morning picking wild blackberries by a creek bed. That afternoon I showed my grandmother my basket and she suggested we make a pie. It was the first time I had ever mixed and rolled a pie crust. After that first bite of hot wild blackberry pie I was hooked.
Many years and pies have passed since that summer day and last Thanksgiving my brother challenged his wife and I to come up with 10 great pie recipes. Much to his wife's dismay when she joined this family of cooks she learned we never wrote our recipes down. We threw in whatever tastes good or pass it along like a storyteller passes along an oral history. As I look through my families recipes on both sides, I understand her frustration. This will be my chance to decipher,decode, and remember to write down recipes of the past, present and future.
For a recipe to go from good to great, it sometimes takes a couple different bakers combining their strengths. Every time I make a pie that meets my satisfaction I send the recipe to my sister-in-law. We decided to blog about it to share our experiences and little tweaks to the recipes along the way. Sit back and enjoy the pie!
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