Last week I made quiche and thought I would do a video of fluting my pie crusts because a reader had asked earlier in the week how I did it! I had no idea how to show that in pictures so we decided to attempt a video. We'll improve over time I hope as this first one is a little shaky at first.
Hope you enjoy!!
Hope you enjoy!!
Blessings from The Holler
The Canned Quilter
I could never attempt a video, but how my mom always crimped her pies looked the same when done but was done two handed and took half the time. She used her two right fingers, (pointer and middle), holding them on the inside of the crust in the dish, and pushed the dough through to make her pattern with her left pointer from the outside..
ReplyDeleteI've seen people also shape it like that using a spoon and two fingers!
Delete...in between the two fingers inside the pie.
ReplyDeleteLove both of them! Thanks for the video.
ReplyDeletethis is great, thanks so much now I can go try it out on my crusts. One thing that surprised me is that you don't sound like you have much of a southern accent. My Dear One is from NC, has been in NY for over 30 yrs and still has a thick accent, so sweet at times, I really don't mind being called "sug" or "sugar" other times the expressions he uses leave me scratching my head! He loves to make fun of my CT Yankee accent but as we all know, CT does not have an accent, the rest of the world does, but not us. LOL!! well I don't want to take up anymore of your time since Hollywood is probably trying to reach you! Seriously though, great video, can't wait for more. Hoping that snow of yours melted by now.
ReplyDeleteI catc myself every so often reverting to that thick drawl especially when I am MAD! Otherwise there is just a trace. My original accent sounded like a mixture of southern drawl and cajun : )
DeleteHaha.. I heard the drawl.. but I spent most of my life in Texas (talk about drawls) and live in Ohio now (15 years) so I can hear any kind of drawl a mile away. ;)
DeleteIt reminds me of home & I love it.
I have also lived in TX and AZ but the one and probably only thing that stuck is "yawl". It just plain works, but I do get looks up here saying yawl along with my Yank talk. Areas of NY, in the highlands, have their own accents too, a mountain kind of talk similar to other areas of the eastern mountains. This is one of those hollers so I had to learn to talk "right" so I would not sound like a "flatlander". Upstate NY is nothing like what folks think it is, very rural, very ethnic. Our town, Argyle, was settled by the Scots (and so lush and hilly and full of sheep, I can see Scotland all over) and my family is Scot Indian from Maine and Canada so I found many old family names on our Old Scot Cemetery here in Argyle. Our school is k-12 and the graduating kids are led into the graduation (held in our combo gym/cafeteria/auditorium) by pipes. Kilts are common up here too. We are one of the few schools still allowed to have an ethnic mascot "The Scots", like Indian tribes are allowed to do, because the vast majority here are Scot. What a mix we are, and all so proud to be 100% American. off to tend chickens, the babies are out for the first time.
DeleteBrenda OWO is of Ulster Scots Irish/German descent, as are many in this area. In the area of Louisiana where I grew up, there were so many dialects that I was exposed to that I seem to have absorbed a little of all of them. I went to school everyday and played with all the neighbor kids and many were cajun. Not far from where we lived was a Hungarian settlement, also an area that was predominantly Italian and an area where many were Irish. My own adoptive parents were Irish in my father's case and Native American in my mother's case. One of my best friends was Mexican and the other an Irish red head. Add to that the heavy population of black residents many of which worked seasonally on my father's farm picking strawberries and peppers and you have a modge podge of dialects to influence a young child. Therefore I absorbed not one dialect such as Southern, but a little of all. I could speak both broken spanish and some cajun as a very young child.
DeleteThis is a part of our American rural heritage that I don't think many understand or appreciate. In CT, much to the surprise of many, there were, still are, many tobacco farms. CT raises what is considered to be the best wrappers for cigars. We could work for wages starting at age 14, and we all did, my parents when they were teens, me and my brother, all my friends. We worked right alongside of migrant workers as well as many hispanic workers bussed in from the south end of Hartford , so like you, we spoke many dialects and languages. I also worked picking strawberries. I am sure you learned as we did all kinds of "interesting" phrases that were not taught in Spanish classes! My southern husband was very surprised to find out about the tobacco farms, I point them out when we visit, still tucked away behind homes and housing developments. Kids don't work it today, they only allow migrant workers and I have no idea why that is. Our town was prosperous, middle and upper middle class, but it was no shame to work tobacco. I guess values have changed a bit. sad to say. We all only have good memories from that work. I also remember going up to the reservation in Maine to see relatives and working doing farm chores as well as picking fiddleheads, speaking of which I picked my first ones today.
DeleteI'll bet fiddleheads would do nicely in quiche, and then I can try out the fancy fluted edges!
DeleteI check your blog every morning, so it's good to be able to put a voice with the blog! Great video! Thanks once again CQ!...and OWO :)
ReplyDeleteBless your heart! I love my followers : ) You guys are the BEST......
DeleteSee...even in your typed words your southern comes out...Bless yours too! I'm a southern girl myself (TN).
DeleteYou're great at what you do, so keep it up.
Loved your video and loved those quiche... We've got asparagus coming on too. I dont have a huge bed but I've got 40 crowns to put out this week.. if my body will let me, anyways. ;)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to more videos in the future as I do your blog. Hope it doesnt go to your head, ;) but I do believe your blog is my very favorite of all of them I subscribe to (and thats quuite a few). ♥
Videos are a pain in the posterior but I will try to continue them from time to time. My daughter wants me to do one a week but that is awfully time consuming doing all that editing and such. We shall see.
DeleteEnjoyed the video and the blog. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteI too enjoyed the video and would love to see more from you. I look forward to your blog entries almost every day. Thanks for all you do! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the warm welcome into your kitchen and allowing us to hear your voice. My in-laws are delightful Southern folk and use the 'Bless your heart' phrase. (Me too now!) Our sorry old world needs more of us going around blessing one another! This afternoon I pulled a pie crust from the freezer to make a treat for hubs and will try your crimping method for sure. I've always done what Winderly-Winderly's mom did except with the hands reversed and for me, it doesn't always come out so pretty. Sorry that videos are a pain to make, we out here in blog land sure love them! Thanks again and now I'm off to search your archives for how you freeze your chives. What a smart idea, here I've been dehydrating them and snipping till I'm silly!
ReplyDeleteChives are super easy. Wash, dry chop and freeze.
DeleteYou doll! I seriously had no idea you could do that. There's a big, fat stand of chives right now that need to get taken care of and then the next spurt of growth I'll let go into blossoms for some vinegars. Thank you so much!!
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