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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: Here’s An Apple Pie Recipe For Any Texan Holiday
Description: Every Christmas my mom would bake eight pies: four apple and four pecan. Now, we wouldn’t eat all of those ourselves. Two would be given away to pie-less people and two would be placed in the deep freeze for some emergency of the future. Pies and money were similar in my mom’s mind. Save a fourth of everything in deep savings for some future need.
When baking these pies, she had a quite a memorable ritual she followed.
First she would prepare the dessert table in the dining room. She’d cover the corner...