Do you like cherry pie? Could I bake you one?
I have twelve cans of tart cherries—not easy to find on your supermarket shelves—and I just noted the expiration date is in one year.
It only takes two cans of tart cherries to make one pie.
I can put a cherry pie together in 15 minutes. Bake it for 25. Enjoy.
I used to bake a pie a week. Adrian loved my pies. When any of the kids came to stay or company came for dinner, I baked more pies.
Of all the recipes my mother left us—my brothers and sisters have their own favorites, I’m sure—the pie recipe was my absolute favorite. It’s the crust, really, that is so special. You can fill it with any kind of fruit.
Now I hardly ever bake pies. When I do, I send most of the pie home with my daughter and grandkids.
I won’t eat store-bought pies.
I am a pie-purist.
How did I end up with 12 cans of tart cherries in my pantry? As I said, they are hard to find on your typical supermarket shelf.
After a visit this past year, when I made them a cherry pie, my stepson and his wife decided to make their own pie with my recipe. But they couldn’t find the tart cherries in their supermarket in Philadelphia.
They’re hard to find, I said, when he called me from the market.
So one day this past summer when I was at Wegman’s with my granddaughter Rachel, we went hunting for the tart cherries and found them.
“How many cans do you want?” asked Rachel, stooping to get them off the lower shelf.
“Take them all,” I said. “You never know when we’ll find them again.”
When I bake a pie, I think of my mother baking her pies, and I think of Adrian eating my pies.
Can I bake you a cherry pie?
