The Practice Pie- a family tradition...

This year, Bailey signed on to do cooking project in 4H.  Later on, Wyatt said he wanted to as well, but with such a large poultry project, I wanted him to wait.  Bailey worked on dinners and side dishes, breads and cookies, but needed to pick a project for fair submission.  She decided she wanted to do a pie.  Then came the decision of which pie to do?  She had previously tried learning pies with competing in the open division before she was old enough for 4-H.  THen she learned key lime and french silk, so she wanted to learn something new and do a much better, more sophisticated version of her pie crust presentation.

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This last week, my Great-Uncle Leon passed away.If there was any question before, it was then gone- she would learn an old family recipe of his mothers, like I had made for Aunt Cicley when she was sick.  That narrowed Bailey down to Pecan or Chess.  Chess is a thinner pie overall, so Bailey thought there wold be more presentation to play with for the Pecan Pie.  She decided for two trial runs- one with our usual glass pie dish, then one in the mandatory metal pie pan for county fair submission.

Saturday afternoon, Bailey took a break from her other work to set about making the first trial run.  Now, the bantam eggs are what get used here at our house, the others are all sold.  So Bailey did the math to determine how many eggs ounce wise were the equivalent of the recipe.  She did her trial run, and fancied up the fluffy edging.  Then part way through cookie, she put a pie crust robot on the middle.  When it came out of the oven, it sat on the counter and tempted us- all the way until tonight!

Have a great night, everyone!

 After dinner, while working on other things, we cute the first pieces of the pie... and the robot lost a leg.  Sorry robot. It was a yummy leg.  On a delicious pie!  Great job Bailey!  Will have to remember to pick up the metal pie pans for her next trial for her Daddy next weekend.  She has a couple little things to tweak, and to get used to with the aluminum pan, but she is right on track!