I made a peach pie the other day. I used Michigan peaches, but they were not as sweet and juicy as I would wish. But it tasted good anyway and the crust was decent.
When I was a kid my mother or grandmother would make whatever kind of birthday "cake" we wanted and I always wanted peach pie. Because my birthday was in May (not peach season), peaches would have to be saved from the previous summer in the freezer. When my grandmother died several years ago, we found a pack of peaches frozen into an ice block in her freezer labeled "Denise's peaches." Who knows how long they had been there! At that point it had been quite a while since the ladies in the family made me a peach pie regularly.
But this pie I made sparked those memories. My grandma made the most delicious pies - especially her crust, and this blog name of "butterscotch pie" is in her honor.
I'm thinking more about the ladies in my family lately since my writing quartet is embarking on a new project - writing letters - and I'm going to write letters to my daughter about these women in my family. The letter about grandma will certainly have to touch a bit on her pie, although she was an amazing woman in several other ways too.
When I was a kid my mother or grandmother would make whatever kind of birthday "cake" we wanted and I always wanted peach pie. Because my birthday was in May (not peach season), peaches would have to be saved from the previous summer in the freezer. When my grandmother died several years ago, we found a pack of peaches frozen into an ice block in her freezer labeled "Denise's peaches." Who knows how long they had been there! At that point it had been quite a while since the ladies in the family made me a peach pie regularly.
But this pie I made sparked those memories. My grandma made the most delicious pies - especially her crust, and this blog name of "butterscotch pie" is in her honor.
I'm thinking more about the ladies in my family lately since my writing quartet is embarking on a new project - writing letters - and I'm going to write letters to my daughter about these women in my family. The letter about grandma will certainly have to touch a bit on her pie, although she was an amazing woman in several other ways too.
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