Apple Pie Training Academy

Anyone related to Gloria will tell you that she knows how to make the best apple pie in all the land.  All our family loves to eat it, but Alexander decided that he wanted to learn how to make it.  He especially wanted to make a pie "with a top on it."  Who would be more qualified to teach such a skill than Grandma? (And who could be so patient and sweet with so many excited little bakers-in-training?)  Everyone agreed that making pies with Grandma would be great fun, so on one of the days of Christmas break, Grandma brought over all the "fixins" for apple pie training academy.

Knowing how eager and excited each child would be to help, she wisely brought four little tins so that each one could have her one-on-one attention and instruction and their own little pie in the end.

She took us carefully and patiently through each step from preparing the cutting board for the dough...

Rolling out the dough to just the right shape and consistency...

Getting it into the little tins...

Cooking the apples with just the right amount of sugar...

 

Adding the apples with a bit of lemon juice and butter...

And adding the all-important top.

We even got all fancy and put each child's initial on top of their own little pie.

At last, it was time for the oven - and everyone said "pie" for the last step.

And, voila!  The finest kid-made pies in all the land!  (Mommy and Daddy and Grandma and Grandpa shared the big pie!)  We ate like kings that night.  And what a fun memory for all of us.  THANK YOU GRANDMA - WE LOVE YOU!