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.

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.

On 9/16/2019 10:44 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> 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.
> Â*Sweet????Â* Dang. I had forgotten to add sugar to the filling.Â* It was
> okay, but it would have been aÂ* better filling with the sugar.
>

Yeah, I've done thing like that a couple of times. Good, but not as
good as it should have been.