Wedding Backstory part 3

Part 3: The Pies

Everyone loves pie.



At the wedding we had multiple peach pies, apple pies, pecan pies, wild Maine blueberry pie, pumpkin pies, pineapple pies, blackberry pies, raspberry bavarian cream pies . . . oh my oh my.

Momma's Amazing and Never-Enough-of-it Raspberry Bavarian Cream Pie:



Step 1: Grow raspberries in your yard. This is important. If there are not little crushed up bugs and blood from your pricked fingers in the pie then it is no good. My mother's porch has a raspberry bush growing right up through it. Some litte volunteer seed was dropped and up sprang the most delicous and voracious rasberry bush ever there was. During the berry season you walk out onto the porch with a bowl and pick berries for breakfast- talk about joyism.

Step 2: Make the Graham Cracker crust. Or, ok, you can buy one.

12 whole graham crackers crushed
3 TBSP brown sugar
6 TBSP melted butter
Combine the crumbs sugar and butter. Press into the bottom and sides of a greased pie pan. Bake at 300 F for ten minutes. Cool and set aside.

Step 3: Eat some spoonfuls brown sugar and a handful of berries.

Step 4: Make the Filling
-Wet down a mixing bowl and pop it in the freezer
-Crush 1 quart of raspberries
-Add to that 1 cup of sugar
-Let this stand for 30 minutes
-Soak 2 tsp of gelatin in 3 tbsp water
-Dissolve that into 3 tbsp of boiling water
-Whip 1 cup of whipping cream in your chilled mixing bowl until it peaks.
-Stir water mixture into berry mixture
-Fold cream lightly into the berries before the berry/gelitan mixture sets up
-Pour the whole delicous mess into the cooled pie shell
-Put into fridge and wait patiently until it all sets up and holds its shpe upon cutting.



Yummmm

Mom made Joey and me a heart shaped half-and-half pie for our wedding. Half pecan (Joey's fav)and half raspberry bavarian:



Everyone at the wedding got a little sweeter!: