On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 9:44:08 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Yesterday morning I was running late and trying to get an apple pie
> assembled and into the oven before my wife got home from church, but she
> got back earlier than usual. I had the dough made and the applies
> peeled when she pulled in. A couple minute later our former neighbours
> dropped by. I was busy slicing apples when we talked. I had trouble
> rolling out the pastry. The bigger problem was the filling. I out the
> flour, nutmeg and cinnamon into a large mixing bowl and gave it a good
> toss, put them in the pan on top of the pastry dough and congratulated
> myself for remembering to dot it with butter. The top crust was a real
> mess but I figured it would taste fine.
>
> We had the freshly baked apple pie for dessert and my wife commented
> that she was surprised that I had used those apples because they weren't
> proper cooking apples and she thought they would be too sweet for a pie.
> Sweet???? Dang. I had forgotten to add sugar to the filling. It was
> okay, but it would have been a better filling with the sugar.
>
It's hard to keep your mind on the task at hand when you're rushing and then
people pop into the kitchen to chatter. You'll nail it next time but it
sounds like it wasn't a complete flop.