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The pie from t'other day, so I don't lose it.
Peach pie
2 - 9" deep pie tins
1.5 batches of butter pastry, the one I use for apple pizza. I used about half bread flour and half white whole wheat because I didn't feel like looking around to see if we had a new bag of all purpose.
Filling: for 2 pies
18 peaches, cut into 8ths (more would have been better)
4.5 tbsp corn starch
1tsp almond extract
1/2c sugar
Roll out the crust and line the pie tins.
Mix the corn starch and the sugar together and then toss all the filling ingredients together. Fill the two pie tins and then roll out more crust and make a lattice or cover them up completely and vent.
Bake 425°F for 20min and then reduce the heat to 350°:F and bake an additional 40min (longer for a bigger pie).
I didn't have quite enough peaches, they were definitely small peaches and I only had 16 of 'em. Also, I baked them too long at high temp so I had to take them out a little sooner than I would have liked, but they were done enough. The filling with 16 small peaches was completely set from the corn starch, with no spilling goop. It would be softer with more peaches, of course. I actually liked it once I got used to it. It wasn't messy, and the set juices were quite tasty.
The reason I really wanted to post today, though, was I finished my entry for Dye for Glory which is a little contest for yarnies who are selling their wares at Sock Summit. I'm not going to Sock Summit myself (it's all the way on the other side of the continent, and I couldn't afford a table anyway), but I have a bunch of yarn going there on consignment with Yarny Goodness, and so I am eligible for this contest.
What the contest really means is exposure. And fun. I wasn't going to enter and my massive water quality issues were going to sideline me anyway. But I've managed to wrench everything back to working as it should by being extra careful about the water, and going back to vinegar. And I've taken some of my last skeins of undyed yarn and made a colorway I absolutely adore. And it's almost exactly how I imagined it when I thought it up, which pleases me greatly. I call it Crispin's Day, in reference to the speech in Henry V, since this is a contest about glory after all.
It's brown, as St Crispin is the patron saint of cobblers, tanners, and leatherworkers (and bikers, apparently). But this is no ordinary brown. Really, seeing is believing. Click the thumbnails to embiggen, of course.
#1, the one on the top.
#2, the one on the bottom.
the other side.
If the weather holds long enough tomorrow, I'm going to get some bright sun pictures. I love, love, love this color. And I can make it again, so I don't have to feel bad sending it away. I've already dyed up another pair in the 6oz size, as this is the 4oz. Now, the question is whether I take my last 6oz skeins and make 2 more in this colorway, or if I make more Heirloom Tomatoes.
*bounces*
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