I wasn’t going to do a post on this apple pie thanks to a traumatic experience involving the leftovers, but as I was flipping through my photos and saw the apple slices coated in cinnamon sugar I remembered how amazing everything tasted at that point and couldn’t resist sharing. I’m tempted to make another apple pie but only go as far as coating apple slices in the cinnamon, sugar, flour mixture and eating it out of a bowl. As much as I like pie crust or pretty much anything that begins with dough, the pre-baked tart apples covered in a thick cinnamon syrup were the highlight - the cookie dough equivalent to apple pie. My apologies to my dining companions who were under the impression that the finished pie coupled with vanilla ice cream were the best part.
The recipe: Antique Apple Pie from Martha Stewart Living, October 2008
Smells good.
Tastes good.
Looks good.
Smells good, tastes good, and looks good to fruit flies, too.
Much like pulling a homemade loaf of bread or a whole roasted chicken out of the oven, pulling a freshly baked pie out of the oven, one that you’ve made from scratch with your own two hands, is a rewarding experience. I thoroughly enjoyed rolling out the dough, sampling apple slices from the filling, pinching the crust together, smelling the apple-cinnamon aroma in my apartment, pulling a nicely browned pie out of the oven, and eating a big slice of it in the company of good friends, but I just cannot look at this pie the same after seeing a posse of fruit flies make a mass exodus from the leftovers a couple of days after I put all that work into it. I now know that when you spot a few fruit flies in your kitchen, you should put leftover pie in the refrigerator instead of just wrapping up on the counter or you will be very sorry two days later when you feel like eating a little slice of pie and realize that the fruit flies have beat you to it. All is not lost, though, as you will slowly but surely get your revenge by baiting those little suckers with jars of apple cider vinegar. Here’s a fun fact: fruit flies cannot swim. Just like my friend, Frank.
I hope I haven’t ruined apple pie or the desire to come to my place for dinner for anyone. The pie was actually really good, and I’d be happy to use this recipe again. The fruit flies are gone, and yes, PETA, fruit flies were harmed in the making of this post. A lot of them.
I’ll have to show you how we used to make fly traps when I worked in a fly lab in college.
Was it a zapper like they used at the BGC snack bar?