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PIE OR DEATH
Aug. 5th, 2020 08:34 amI decided that I shouldn't have talked up the buttermilk pie so much and NOT included the recipe.
If you're using a screen reader or can't read the image well (click through for a big version) here's the text:
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1 whole egg
3 egg yolks
2 cups fresh buttermilk
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon lemon extract
Sift together flour and sugar. Add whole egg well beaten with egg yolks. Add buttermilk, stir and cook in VIKO Aluminum Sauce Pan until thick and creamy. (You can use any sauce pan, but since this was a promotional cookbook, they make everything in pans and pots from Viko.) Remove from fire; add butter and lemon extract. Cool slightly, and pour into baked pie shell. Cover with meringue.
MERINGUE: use 1/3 cup sugar for the three egg whites.
The pie shell called for is a basic pastry dough - use your favorite recipe or buy one from the store. They also don't give much direction for the meringue, but I never used it. You can feed the egg whites to your pets, or make nougat or something. If you make a lot of granola bars, egg white makes a good binder.
I have no clue how you'd make this vegan. I know unsweetened soy milk will curdle and perform like buttermilk in biscuits and breads, but I haven't tried this recipe with it. Maybe Isa Chandra Moskowitz could put her big vegan brain to work on it.
We're forging ahead with birthday month baking here. I received my freeze-dried corn yesterday so I can tackle the Milk Bar Pie today. The same chef also make corn cookies with that stuff, and the reviews say they taste like slightly sweet corn flakes in cookie form, so that sounds awesome. The corn powder called for is just freeze-dried corn ground into powder, so you can buy survival tubs of the corn and blitz it in a food processor or high-powered blender. My guess is it's going to both sweeten AND act as a binder, so I wouldn't skip out on it if I were you, and you were making this stuff.
And now for something completely different.
It's not usually a good sign when all your cats are sitting around staring intently at the same thing.
Early this morning they located a cave cricket in the ash bucket near the fireplace. It's shadowy in that corner, and it was before dawn, so when I looked in, all I saw was LEGS. I dropped a tupperware bowl over it and escorted the bucket outside, then went back out when the sun was up to remove the bowl and let whatever-the-hell it was out. Honestly, it looked like a massive spider, and when the bowl was over it, it made these insanely loud clicking and buzzing noises. But in the sunlight I saw it was just a cave cricket - which is actually a kind of grasshopper, but anyway. They're alarming looking but pretty harmless.
I'm glad I found it when I did. The last thing I need is for one of the cats to proudly bring me the partially-dismembered corpse of one of those things while I'm still in bed. And I'm just thinking back to when Baby Sheba brought me that mostly dead mouse one night, but then wouldn't drop it. It was like she just wanted to sit on the bed with it in her jaws and growl. Because cat.
If you're using a screen reader or can't read the image well (click through for a big version) here's the text:
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1 whole egg
3 egg yolks
2 cups fresh buttermilk
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon lemon extract
Sift together flour and sugar. Add whole egg well beaten with egg yolks. Add buttermilk, stir and cook in VIKO Aluminum Sauce Pan until thick and creamy. (You can use any sauce pan, but since this was a promotional cookbook, they make everything in pans and pots from Viko.) Remove from fire; add butter and lemon extract. Cool slightly, and pour into baked pie shell. Cover with meringue.
MERINGUE: use 1/3 cup sugar for the three egg whites.
The pie shell called for is a basic pastry dough - use your favorite recipe or buy one from the store. They also don't give much direction for the meringue, but I never used it. You can feed the egg whites to your pets, or make nougat or something. If you make a lot of granola bars, egg white makes a good binder.
I have no clue how you'd make this vegan. I know unsweetened soy milk will curdle and perform like buttermilk in biscuits and breads, but I haven't tried this recipe with it. Maybe Isa Chandra Moskowitz could put her big vegan brain to work on it.
We're forging ahead with birthday month baking here. I received my freeze-dried corn yesterday so I can tackle the Milk Bar Pie today. The same chef also make corn cookies with that stuff, and the reviews say they taste like slightly sweet corn flakes in cookie form, so that sounds awesome. The corn powder called for is just freeze-dried corn ground into powder, so you can buy survival tubs of the corn and blitz it in a food processor or high-powered blender. My guess is it's going to both sweeten AND act as a binder, so I wouldn't skip out on it if I were you, and you were making this stuff.
And now for something completely different.
It's not usually a good sign when all your cats are sitting around staring intently at the same thing.
Early this morning they located a cave cricket in the ash bucket near the fireplace. It's shadowy in that corner, and it was before dawn, so when I looked in, all I saw was LEGS. I dropped a tupperware bowl over it and escorted the bucket outside, then went back out when the sun was up to remove the bowl and let whatever-the-hell it was out. Honestly, it looked like a massive spider, and when the bowl was over it, it made these insanely loud clicking and buzzing noises. But in the sunlight I saw it was just a cave cricket - which is actually a kind of grasshopper, but anyway. They're alarming looking but pretty harmless.
I'm glad I found it when I did. The last thing I need is for one of the cats to proudly bring me the partially-dismembered corpse of one of those things while I'm still in bed. And I'm just thinking back to when Baby Sheba brought me that mostly dead mouse one night, but then wouldn't drop it. It was like she just wanted to sit on the bed with it in her jaws and growl. Because cat.
