Thank you all for serving me up such a big slice of it!
Coincidentally, I made the real thing this week, using a recipe from the current Country Living. I had never heard of this Hoosier treat, and neither had anyone at our Bible study. I couldn't have begun to imagine how luscious it is--it's seriously just made with sugar and cream, a little butter, flour, and cinnamon.
The Composer tried to get back to the pieplate in time to get a second piece. When he saw our friend Chuck taking the last, he told me later, he refrained from kicking him in the shins only because it *was* an actual Bible study meeting.
Wow! My mouth is actually watering, that looks so yummy! I will have to get a copy of that magazine. The story about your husband made me laugh. Sugar-cream pie and WWJD?
ReplyDeletelooks wonderfully creamy and rich. I shall give it a try. Perhaps i should get the new country living first. LOL
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Perhaps the Composer can gather comfort from the fact you know the recipe so a second sugar cream pie may be in his future.
ReplyDeleteI'm drooling! One day when I have a *normal* oven (mine is like a mini microwave) I will bake all the pies you posted here!
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That's so funny. I saw that recipe too... now I'll have to try it. But maybe we'll keep it all to ourselves. :)
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ReplyDeleteThat is too funny! :)
As a Hoosier I had no idea it WAS a Hoosier treat. I thought everyone ate sugar cream pie!
ReplyDeleteI saw that recipe and wasn't sure if I should try it or not. It seemed so...sugary!!
ReplyDeleteThe Composer exercised admirable self-restraint.
Ha Ha....see even you will miss your daily posts here.
ReplyDeleteAs a Hoosier, I grew up with this pie served in most of the restaurants. It was one of my mom's favorites and I always think of her when I make it.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin in Kentucky makes the same pie but with brown sugar. It brings an entire different flavor to the table (but still delicious).
I've never even heard of it, but it looks great. Country Living should send you a referral fee for all the business you're sending them!
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely a Hoosier treat but I would bet that most of us eat the Wick's version fresh from the frozen dessert section at the local supermarket. I will file this recipe away though just in case Wick's ever goes out of business!
ReplyDeleteGood for the Composer, I think my husband would have still kicked...its pie after all!
ReplyDeleteThat looks SO good. Great story to go with it, too! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds scrumptious, and I think the Composer showed great restraint.
ReplyDeleteI know - it's a fabulous pie and totally simple! I made (and blogged about) a sugar cream pie from my friend's childhood in Indiana. Then I saw the recipe you used in Country Living too. THe pie I'm thinking of making is the Shaker lemon pie.
ReplyDeleteI know this will sound silly, but... does this post mean you are not leaving us?
ReplyDeletePlease reconsider. I understand if you really can't continue, but you've been such an inspiration to me in the last couple of years, I almost feel like I'm losing a relative.
This is actually only my second time commenting ever, first time being yesterday, so I'll introduce myself real quickly. I am a twenty-year old girl from Slovenia, converting from atheism to Catholic Cristianity.
My conversion process has been quite lonely at times; although I have a wonderful Catholic boyfriend, I know very few Christian women or families I could look up to. That's why I turned to the Internet and discovered your site.
Immediately, it became a great source of inspiration. It is (also) because of you that I dream about having a large family and living a peaceful and beautiful life. It has opened my eyes toward beauty in nature, housework and much more.
So, if you really are leaving for good, I'll try to understand, I will! But know that your blog played an important role in my life this past couple of years and I'll be really sorry to see you go.
Ajda
As a Hoosier who's made many a sugar cream pie, here's a little tip for you - try it topped with blueberries. I put the filling in the pie shell,sprinkle with cinnamon and swirl it, then add a sprinkling of berries and butter, bake. We especially like this pie chilled.
ReplyDeleteIs this the recipe?
ReplyDeleteI made the sugar-cream pie today! Oh so good : )
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ReplyDeleteIt may not be the exact recipe Anna was talking about but it's surely what I'm bringing to my next picnic! I had that window opened as I was perusing the newer comments!
Your Friend in Christ,
Dawn :)
I sympathize with Ajda, and everyone else - this blog has been such a help, a guidepost and an inspiration. Like someone said yesterday - like a book I'm reading and I don't want to put down. I don't bother with books which aren't useful to me!
ReplyDeleteLike many things in Christianity, this situation is paradoxical. Most blogs are self-serving; but in yours the focus was on the value of domestic contentment and how to achieve it, and in the doing of that you got yourself more attention than the self-serving ones! If I'm making myself clear - I don't know. I'm not trying to make you out to be a saint, or imply that you didn't enjoy the attention. But it didn't seem to be your purpose. It's like Psalm 37: "Delight in the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall give thee the desires of thy heart."
Good goin', Anna.
A note of respect and appreciation ... I have read your blog constantly and fervently for years. I'm afraid that most of your readership would regard me as an ultra-liberal Democrat West Coast freak, so I've never posted a comment. But Anna: we are not very different, you and I. We worship every Sunday with our family at organized religious communities with centuries of history in American culture. We go to thrift stores. We stop by farmers' roadside stands. We listen to our children sing and play music. We pray every night. We support the weak and vulnerable. We gather three generations of family together on a constant basis. I deeply respect your life's work, and all that your children are contributing to this culture and to this nation. Were I to pass you on the street, we might not even not to each other. But we are not so different, you and I! Wherever life takes you, know that you are appreciated, respected, and loved. You have made a deep contribution to the culture of our Nation.
ReplyDeleteIn the days or years to come, if you nod to someone on the street in a strange town, maybe that someone will be me, saying: "Thank you, Anna. We are all of us American women who love our families and our religious traditions. Let's thinks about how we are alike, and not about how we are different. Amen."
Your blogs have been a blessing to read. You are a special person with a special heart. A nice refreshing taste of pure love for Christ.
ReplyDeleteAjda, I know how you feel. Don't despair, you won't be alone on your journey. No one could ever, ever match the serenity, simplicity and beauty of Anna's blog. I do, however, have a couple of blogs by women, like you, who were once Athiests and have converted to Catholicism. One is Diary of a Conversion, written by a young mother who only recently became a Christian. http://www.conversiondiary.com/
ReplyDeleteThe other, Like Mother, Like Daughter, is by the mother of 7 children, the youngest of whom are still being homeschooled, while the oldest are starting their own families.
http://ourmothersdaughters.blogspot.com/
Again, they are NOT a replacement for Pleasant View, but might give you some comfort in the transition.
Can't wait to try this recipe. My oldest daughter and I were drooling over this recipe as we glanced through CL on a recent plane ride.
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