Pie Are Round
Aug. 3rd, 2020 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenWow, how about that hurricane, huh? Isaias is still about even with Cape Canaveral, so it didn't move too far overnight but it's still just a tropical storm and it did bring us some needed rain. I mean, it can and likely will strengthen as it heads up the coast, but it hasn't been a big deal here. The way people in the news media are hollerin' about it, you'd think it was a far stronger and nastier storm. But as someone local said, "Having a hurricane is the most normal thing we've done all year."
I'm probably going to get drizzled on but I'm doing errands today anyway. I'm almost out of peanut butter so that state of affairs must be rectified. I need to make a dump run soon and get rid of the old fencing, the mattress, and some other dubious items that I don't want to put out for roadside pickup. I also haven't forgotten about sending off art supplies to people, but I do need to get weights and shipping estimates.
So now it's August, so it's Leo Time! I don't make as big a deal out of my birthday any more, and since our Disney trip is canceled (the deposit showed back up in the bank account, so we're officially done) I will just make my own ridiculous sugary treats here at home. Fox stumbled across Milk Bar's website and emailed me their recipe for birthday cake, which looks like something I NEED BADLY. But the stacking and smoothing, and "perfect glossy white frosting" looks like it might be a few steps above my current baking skills. That's not going to stop me from trying, of course, but I'm going to need a cake ring or ring mold to do it. In the meantime I'm going to give their Famous Pie a shot - the one that was formerly called Crack Pie.
It looks a LOT like buttermilk pie. When I lived in Kentucky, a couple of my neighbors often came over and we cooked for each other. Peter was from New York City and had this old recipe for buttermilk pie, and it was amazingly good - tender, rich, slightly sour, mildly sweet. And he would never give me the recipe. And actually I did find the recipe eventually but it wasn't online. At that time I barely had AOL where I lived, and even if I could get online there just weren't tons of websites out there. I found the recipe when my vintage cookbook collecting landed me in a used book store in Nashville, where I found "The VIKO Cookware Cook Book." By Viko Cookware, obviously, which you can still find on Etsy and eBay & etc. The book was from the 1920s and had seen serious kitchen use in its time. The binding was still good and the covers were in decent condition and ... it had that buttermilk pie recipe. I tried making it and it was the same flavor I remembered.
I'm on page five of Feed Your Demons, and I started doodling ideas for the covers - I'll need front and back, as well as insides, but the insides can be something simple. The outer cover art I may do in Painter and get a little fancy with it, unless that seems like cheating when the inside artwork is simpler.
I've got a lot more stops to make today than usual so I'd probably better get going.
I'm probably going to get drizzled on but I'm doing errands today anyway. I'm almost out of peanut butter so that state of affairs must be rectified. I need to make a dump run soon and get rid of the old fencing, the mattress, and some other dubious items that I don't want to put out for roadside pickup. I also haven't forgotten about sending off art supplies to people, but I do need to get weights and shipping estimates.
So now it's August, so it's Leo Time! I don't make as big a deal out of my birthday any more, and since our Disney trip is canceled (the deposit showed back up in the bank account, so we're officially done) I will just make my own ridiculous sugary treats here at home. Fox stumbled across Milk Bar's website and emailed me their recipe for birthday cake, which looks like something I NEED BADLY. But the stacking and smoothing, and "perfect glossy white frosting" looks like it might be a few steps above my current baking skills. That's not going to stop me from trying, of course, but I'm going to need a cake ring or ring mold to do it. In the meantime I'm going to give their Famous Pie a shot - the one that was formerly called Crack Pie.
It looks a LOT like buttermilk pie. When I lived in Kentucky, a couple of my neighbors often came over and we cooked for each other. Peter was from New York City and had this old recipe for buttermilk pie, and it was amazingly good - tender, rich, slightly sour, mildly sweet. And he would never give me the recipe. And actually I did find the recipe eventually but it wasn't online. At that time I barely had AOL where I lived, and even if I could get online there just weren't tons of websites out there. I found the recipe when my vintage cookbook collecting landed me in a used book store in Nashville, where I found "The VIKO Cookware Cook Book." By Viko Cookware, obviously, which you can still find on Etsy and eBay & etc. The book was from the 1920s and had seen serious kitchen use in its time. The binding was still good and the covers were in decent condition and ... it had that buttermilk pie recipe. I tried making it and it was the same flavor I remembered.
I'm on page five of Feed Your Demons, and I started doodling ideas for the covers - I'll need front and back, as well as insides, but the insides can be something simple. The outer cover art I may do in Painter and get a little fancy with it, unless that seems like cheating when the inside artwork is simpler.
I've got a lot more stops to make today than usual so I'd probably better get going.
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Date: 2020-08-03 10:02 pm (UTC)