#12 bake a pie from scratch

I baked this pie back in June.  Anything pastry scares me in the kitchen, especially if it involves a rolling pin.  But that’s why baking a pie made the list.  I choose to do a classic apple pie b/c I had apples in the fridge.  And I went with a very simple flour and shortening and cold water recipe for the crust.  I don’t have a food processor so I had to cut the shortening into the flour using a pastry knife, basically I went about this the old fashioned/hard way.  I’ve heard pie crust is way easier if you use updated methods.  Anyway the crust dough seemed really dry and didn’t hold together well.  I did manage to piece it together to form a bottom and top crust.  It’s not the prettiest pie in the world.  Looks aside, it tasted very good and didn’t last very long in the house.  I put this back on the list to try again next year.  I want next years pie to be prettier.

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