Apple Pies!

Hi, everybody!
Yesterday was the day that some of Grandma’s former students came out to Sodus to make apple pies! I have some very good friends among the pie makers! We got a late start because Orlando-san’s car wasn’t working right. While we were waiting for everybody to arrive, I made sure we had instructions about apple picking to hand out. When our guests arrived, Grandma sent them off to pick apples at Alasa Farms. It was raining, and little lions don’t like getting wet, so I stayed home and helped Grandma get ready. I dried all the new pie plates that our guests brought, and then I helped set out the bread for lunch. At the orchard, our guests picked Crispin and Cortland apples. Grandma thought all the Honeycrisp apples would be gone, but Orlando-san used a ladder and the long-handled picker to get some off the very tops of the trees! When our guests brought the apples back, we had soup and salad and bread and cider for lunch. We needed to be well-fed to make eleven apple pies!

After lunch, lots of things started happening at the same time! Some of us peeled apples and cut them up, and some of us started making crust. I helped Mitchell-san make crust in two-pie batches. Then I helped Anthony-san make filling, one pie at a time. If the filling sits around too long before it goes into a pie, the juices run out of the apples! Everybody got a turn at rolling pie crust! I helped Rachel-san make a bottom crust, then I helped Orlando-san roll out a top crust. Doesn’t his crust look nice?

We baked the very first pie we made, so we could eat it and make sure all the others would be yummy when they were baked. All the rest of the pies were going home to be baked later, so I helped Orlando-san put them in plastic bags. Then we took a picture of all the bakers and all the pies. After that, I helped serve our baked pie. We ate it with cheddar cheese and vanilla ice cream. It was yummy!

Orlando-san and Mitchell-san had to get a ride home with Rachel-san and Anthony-san, so the car was full! Anthony-san had to be very careful about putting the pies in the trunk, and there wasn’t enough room for all of them! Three pies had to go home on somebody’s lap!

Grandma reminded me that we’re not done making apple pies. In two weeks, I get to help make pies at church with my church pie making friends! I’m lucky to have so many friends who are good at making apple pies!
Love,
Lion-san