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My mom's beautiful handmade pie crust, surrounding pumpkin.
Given my druthers, mothers, a list has been assembled of Mother's Day wishes:
- eating delicious food I did not prepare
- eating pie for breakfast, whose crust I did not assemble
- drinking lots of wine I don't get a headache from
- receiving the first of an endless amount of weekly, professional massages, including reflexology
- the cats in my house stop shedding
- daughters potty train themselves without making any mess for me to clean up
- nobody making a mess for me to clean up
- no more ants in the kitchen
There are more wishes, but these really get to the heart of the matter of the self-indulgence I so richly deserve.
My own Mother, Anne G., fulfilled one of my wishes this week by crafting two lovely handmade pie crusts at my request. She does it so quickly and perfectly with so little and I do it so clumsily and time-consumedly with so much that it just doesn't make sense for me to make crust if she's in the house with idle hands. She does it with three ingredients, no time in the fridge, straight to the rolling pin then the pie pan. Genius. Thank you Mom for this and everything else. Your granddaughters and I ate fantastic pumpkin pie for two breakfasts this week and are better people for it.
Make it for your mom, filling it with something tasty, or get her to make it for you!
Mom's Pie Crust Recipe
- 2 cups flour
- 1 stick butter or butter substitute
- ice water to the correct consistency
Mash cold butter into the flour with a fork till it is like gravel, then add ice water, a tablespoon at a time, to form something that can hold together and mold into two similar balls of dough. Roll with rolling pin to size of your pie pan, roll out another. Nets two single pie crusts or one double. This is incredibly inexpensive to make. Bake yer Mom a pie!
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