{"id":551,"date":"2016-01-19T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2016-02-16T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:23:34","slug":"pie-four-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Pie Four: Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-552 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1155-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1155\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1155-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1155-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1155-1024x1020.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pie four is classic apple and it featured a delicious flaky crust (that simple butter crust that I&#8217;m starting to trust),\u00a0with an organic Granny Smith apple filling. \u00a0It was tart! \u00a0I cooked the apples in lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg until the apples were soft; then I drained off the juice, and cooked\u00a0the juice over a low heat with butter, until it reduced and caramelized a bit. \u00a0Maybe I was too impatient.\u00a0Also,\u00a0I think this pie still looks too light in color. \u00a0I want a golden brown,\u00a0so to my eye this pie looks pale. \u00a0Maddy disagrees. \u00a0She says it looks right.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0thing about this pie is that I did not adequately meld the top and the bottom together, so the top sort of lifted off. \u00a0And again, the edges&#8230;I don&#8217;t know how to make that beautiful fluted edge that my mom used to make\u00a0with her fingers. She just did it, and like any magic trick that you live with day-in and day-out, it\u00a0just\u00a0seemed ordinary, so I didn&#8217;t pay attention. \u00a0SMH. \u00a0All those magical things that Evelyn did when I wasn&#8217;t looking or paying her any mind. \u00a0What I wouldn&#8217;t give for another year with my mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pie four is classic apple and it featured a delicious flaky crust (that simple butter crust that I&#8217;m starting to trust),\u00a0with an organic Granny Smith apple filling. \u00a0It was tart! \u00a0I cooked the apples in lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg until the apples were soft; then I drained off the juice, and cooked\u00a0the juice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}