Earlier this week, I got an email from Matt over at River North Beer asking if I bake as well as cook. Ha! Of COURSE I do both. 19 April 2014 Note: River North Beer is now Lakeshore Beverage Company.
Turns out that one of RNB’s clients, Virtue Cider was hosting an apple pie bake-off in conjunction with Sheffield’s. Oh, and there’s cider too. Yeah.
Well. I have just the thing. I mean, I’m crap at pies, but I like baking them. I also like having random blog fodder. You know I’m posting this to tell you I’ll be posting more about it.
So. My plan of attack. I’m going to get a pie recipe from that cookbook and try it out. I’m going to use a tweaked pie crust recipe from Alton Brown. (Already in the fridge!) Following Michelle Foik’s of Virtue Cider’s comments on making cider from the cider tasting and brain clearing event a couple of weeks ago, I’ve picked out three kinds of apples for my pie.
Wish me luck! I don’t expect to win, but my hope/goal is that I don’t make an utterly liquid or disgusting pie. I hope to have time to bake and cool my test pie tomorrow, but more likely it will be Thursday. Sunday’s the big day!
Well, damn. I’m busy on Sunday. We have such amazing apple orchards up here in McHenry county that I’m never short on apples in Sept/October. I love pie. Pie is both easy, and incredibly difficult.
I need to stop at the orchard tomorrow and get more Cortland apples. Mmmmmm….
Too bad! It’d be fun to try your pie and to meet you, Jim!
Cortlands are one of my pie apples!
Lattice top?
No way. I don’t have those skills yet. Though if I eventually get them, maybe I can make a single crust recipe for the whole pie!
When come back, bring winning pie ribbon.