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Moms Pies
(1987)
As stated before, mom loved to cook and she loved to make pies. All kinds of
pies; Apple, cherry, rhubarb, peach, meat, apricot, just a whole lot of pies!
One Saturday in 1987, she pulled out of the freezer a meat pie, for dinner and
an apple pie for desert. She cooked both during the afternoon and made side
dishes to go with the meat pie. She called us (me and dad) to dinner at 6 pm. We
sat down and dad cut into the meat pie. Before mom could say anything, dad asked
mom, “Ella would you like some cherry pie?”
Mom looked at him and said, “Oh shit! That is supposed to be a meat pie.” She
quickly got up and went into the kitchen and brought in the other pie, we were
going to have for desert. She cut into the pie and said, “I wonder if broccoli
goes well with peach pie?” Dad and I started to laugh, when mom glared, then
she started laughing, too.
Mom was a great cook; she just didn’t know how to label anything that she put
into the freezer.
After mom passed away, the girls cleaned out the freezer. They estimated
that there were at least 50 pies, 100 crab cakes and several different types of
meat. Mom sure loved to cook!