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Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pagal....transparent pie is no more than whipping cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla and a dab of flour....Beat and beat and beat. Then baked until it's well.....transparent. You can actually see through it. Talk about rich....One small sliver will send you into sugar shock....But what a way to go......:)

Bmh

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What are Hush puppies..and what is greens exactly?

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG sugar pie! I haven't had that in YEARS!

Avery, I figured you must've "grown your own" for the table. That was way too much food. Could you just IMAGINE how many shopping carts you would've had to fill for 16 people!

Webkitty, <grin>!

Wiseolowl, that's why I sorta started this thread. I thought... criminy, these people just sit around all day. I'd definitely be trying to entertain myself. Cooking would definitely be one way to do so. (Reading the bible might be another, but that's a different thread! LOL!)

Draheid

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I gotta throw this out here cuz I haven't seen it anywhere else:

For all those who have difficulty throwing together a good meal, due to lack of time, or whatever, there is a wonderful invention for you:

CROCKPOT


You cut up and toss all your fixin's in there early in the morning, add some water, broth, or sauce, turn it on, cover it and forget about it until you get home.

Anything from Swiss Steak to Beef Stew to Chili to Meatloaf to Roast Beef. It's all good in a Crockpot! And so tender it falls apart when you serve it!

Toss some biscuits in the oven for 10-12 minutes and you have a hearty meal, ready to go!
JMO - FWIW

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hush puppies are a must with catfish! BMH, think cornbread with onions deep fried......And greens, well in this house it usually means Mustard greens w/ham hocks. Which I personally can't stand.

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Draheid... here's a "...wonderful intention"? LOL!!!

Good point, though. I don't do much in a crockpot, but I do have a killer chicken with yams and oranges that I do in the winter. Yum over noodles.

And it is easy. Throw it in. Turn it on. Go away. Come back. Eat.

Sheesh... even THESE houseguest could figure that out. Maybe that's what they should've asked for in this past America's Choice award.

Draheid

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Uh, whatcha talkin' 'bout Costacat...it says INVENTION! LOL Thanks I fixed it! :)

Fat fingers from too much crockpot cooking! :)

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I use my crockpot quite often, especially during the summer when I don't want to heat up the house by turning on the oven. Don't tell anyone but I have 3 crockpots of various sizes and use whatever one fits the meal I'm making!

Aus - the transparent pie sounds sinful and delish! I'll have to look for the recipe and give it a try. We eat pecan pie and shoefly pie here. My dad's favorite is mincemeat, ewwwwww.

Bmh

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
no Draheid..I asked what the hel were hush puppies and greens and then my question was answered lol

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pagal.....give me 2 minutes and I'll get it for you.....it's very easy.....BRB

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Aus! I'm hanging!

Draheid

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hush puppies always remind of the 'Fish & More' from Long John Silvers ... you do know that 'More' is the excess batter from the fish, fried up and 'SOLD' as a side!!! Who was the mastermind who came up with THAT goldmine??? LOL

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pagal...here it is

Transparent Pie
1 c. sugar
3 t. flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 pt. whipping cream
3 egg yolks (save the whites)
dash of vanilla

Mix all this very well...mix and mix till sugar is disolved. Pour into unbaked pie shell and bake at 325 for an hour or more till it is solid in the middle. After it cools if you want to make it sinfully good use the white to make a merangue for the top.

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Aus! It sounds wonderful - I will give it a try!

Bmh

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok gotta question is this pie actually clear??

Pagal

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, and I forgot to say that I've never ever made a meringue but have been working up to it. Dh loves lemon meringue pie and I would really like to make one for him.

Woofy

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aus10 - do you mean 3 T. (tablespoon) of flour or 3 t. (teaspoon) which is the same as 1 T?

Whoami

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mmnnnn! That pie sounds deadly! Will have to try it come the next family gathering.

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you get it right it should be almost transparent. Sometimes I've made it where it kinda looks custard like, and it's still good...I think the more you beat it and make sure the sugar is disolved the clearer it becomes.

Pagal.....the secret to merangue is not to do it in a plastic bowl.....use metal or glass.....Good luck and let me know how it turns out! :)

Wiseolowl

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat you are reading different threads you sly one...the devil will get you

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pagal, along with metal or glass (or better yet, use copper bowls) be sure everything is "Marcellas clean." Absolutely spotless!!

And be sure to separate those eggs over a third bowl. Even an itty bitty speck of yolk will ruin your meringue.

Aus, my teeth are hurting thinking about this recipe! <grin>

Reader234

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(Aus your Transparent pie sounds a lot like Shoo Fly Pie my granny used to make!! You have to "shoo" the flies away!! My cousin makes a Chess Pie that is similiar too, just like baked sugar!!

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
3 scant teaspoons of flour....not heaping.

This receipe was handed down to me by my hubby's grandma from KY. She and I are the only one's in the family who can seem to get it to work...I wonder why...maybe because I'm the only one who can decipher her handwriting I guess???? And she wrote 3 t. flour????

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've got a killer sweet potato pie receipe too....but it's a pain to make.....But now that ya'all have got me in the baking mood.......I'll furnish dessert tommorrow night.....LOL

Tntitanfan

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
THe chef at the cooking school I attend says cooking is an art and baking is a science! These posts seem to support that!