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Farm Kitchen:  Just made my first Key Lime Pie!  |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jan 05 2008 : 8:19:38 PM
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My mom brought me a beautiful cookbook for Christmas called Sweet Pies, written by an African American woman from the Flint/Detroit area. This key lime pie is in it--a bag of key limes was cheaper than one lemon at the Grocery, so I bought them!!!! Each pie is a recipe from either an Aunt, her mother, a friend, an old friend of the family, etc...and each pie comes with a story about that person--not all are lovely, some are sad. Husband's leaving, illness, what have you, but each story shows resilience. Also, this book celebrates women and cooking, and how each of us passes our "magic" down to our daughters, or daughters in law, nieces, etc...
The funniest thing I've read in it so far is that you shouldn't trust a woman who would just give away her recipes willy nilly. A woman's recipes are her secrets, her soul, her currency!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
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Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2008 : 9:57:21 PM
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I know--there are many that I give away, but I have to be honest, I guard my sweet potato pie recipe with my life. It was my Nanny's mother's "mammy's" recipe, and it is SINFUL....and everywhere I go people ask I act like I didn't hear them
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2008 : 9:58:47 PM
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How strange--I'm a little ignorant as to the difference between key limes and regular (besides the obvious size and a bit different taste)...It is refreshing, though. I really like lime in general, and I love Key Lime Cheesecake more, but I just don't have the patience to make a cheesecake!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
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Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jan 06 2008 : 10:48:51 AM
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I've made my Key Lime Pie with regular Limes when I could not find Key Limes. No one knew the difference. 
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3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jan 06 2008 : 11:01:27 AM
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Ok...not sure what I did wrong, but the darn thing just didn't really "set". It called for boiling until thick, then removing from heat and then adding the yolks, the lime and zest and then putting back on low for 2 mins. Which I did. Then you pour into shell. Did that, too. It seemed like it was setting, then when I took it out of the fridge a few minutes ago to have a piece, it was more like thick honey consistency....
Bah. Failure! Tastes good, just was a mess! My black lab could NOT believe I was just scraping a perfectly good pie into the garbage...he got to lick the pie plate :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
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Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jan 06 2008 : 3:06:03 PM
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Bummer!!!!!!!!
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3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 06:18:30 AM
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Oh Man! I can't believe you did that either - especially if it tasted good!! :)
I love key lime pies... as long as it's not green. That seems to be a sure sign of a cook who isn't exactly familiar with key lime pie. ;)
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 06:23:05 AM
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Nope, did NOT use any "green" in pie! I'm not so fond of that, either.....it's more a custard color, isn't it? It was actually kindof like lime yogurt, so it wasn't too terrible, but when you want a PIE, you want a pie :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jan 08 2008 : 11:23:13 AM
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Thanks to Jonnie, I had to make a key lime pie today!!
I made too much for the pie pan. But I'm not sitting here eating it with a spoon out of the bowl. Nope, not me! ;)
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
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Posted - Jan 08 2008 : 11:24:27 AM
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I'm just glad yours turned out, and wasn't like yogurt!!! How refreshed you must feel, eating that lovely key lime pie filling!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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Just made my first Key Lime Pie!
