Our first guest blogger here at O.C.J. is my friend, Noel Lizotte. Noel was raised in the country (Northern Crawford County) by a creative and adventuresome mother. Noel possesses those same qualities and is a talented writer. Her recent success is publishing her first cookbook, Apron Free Cooking. Here she shares one of the joys of living in the country that her mother created for her and her siblings, and a delicious recipe for cherry pie!
Marcheta *salavating
Country
Food from My Childhood
By
Noel Lizotte
www.ApronFreeCooking.com
www.ApronFreeCooking.com
I
remember my mother being more interested in creating grand adventures for us
kids than being concerned about a gourmet dinner. I’m the oldest of five, and
we sure had plenty of good times! One day, we all packed our peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches in red bandanas, tied the bandanas to sticks and hiked down
the field to the woods. We pretended to be hoboes and had a picnic lunch on a
log. We were probably two football field lengths from the house, but to a six
year old, it was a grand adventure.
We
had three cherry trees in the front yard that would become overloaded with
fruit every summer. We spent days picking, pitting and freezing those tart
cherries! Mom would make up pies and cobblers with the frozen cherries. Her
cherry pie recipe was simple.
Cherry
Pie
Prepare
a double crust pastry for 9 inch pan. Combine 4 cups fresh pitted tart red
cherries, 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons corn starch and dash of salt. Turn into
pastry shell, dot with butter and place top crust. Bake at 375 degrees
Fahrenheit for 60 minutes.
We
couldn’t wait for that pie to cool off enough to eat with vanilla ice cream!
More recipes like this are available my cookbook, visit www.ApronFreeCooking.com
to purchase your copy today!
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