Pie report

[redbird]

In the interests of research, I bought a parve cherry pie from the bakery on 187th Street where we normally get our rye bread. (They make good rye bread.) I didn't touch it yesterday, because yesterday I had really fresh rye bread.

I just had some of the pie. It is acceptable, but nothing special. Granted, cherry is not my favorite kind of pie, and I may yet test an apple pie if they have one when I'm there, but my tentative feeling is that if cattitude isn't feeling like making pie crust next November, we're probably better off with an apple crisp for Thanksgiving dessert than with a pie from Greuenbaum's.

Details (mostly for Cattitude and adrian_turtle): the crust is okay but not delightful, and has sugar sprinkled over it. The top is a lattice crust. The filling is pretty standard cherry pie filling, that is, sweet, somewhat gluey, and unsubtle. I got cherry because the other options yesterday were pineapple and pineapple/cherry/blueberry, and I don't like pineapple pie. It is, however, parve, and considerably better than the commercial dairy-less pie crust Adrian found last month.

Comments

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen a pineapple pie.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

It'd have to be from canned pineapple because fresh pineapple has an enzyme that wouldn't allow the goopiness to hold it together. I thought I'd hate Hawaiian pizza, but I didn't, so maybe I'd like pineapple pie.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Wow. I didn't know pineapple pie even existed. LJ is so educational!