Hello, Kris here. Did you catch that? Paragraph two? The part where she says "since you don't like cherries..." and what's her very first food entry? Sweet, sweet cherry, WHY? This is why I don't like Sharon. I'm Kris, the attractive girl on the right who is not photoshopped to death (see Sharon's picture.) I'm the sensible one, who has a crapload of stuff to do when I get home and baking is NOT on my radar, especially on a Monday, and especially because the only thing tart here is the look on my face because 1. Who (big dramatic pause) asks for a cherry pitter? (Seriously, poll your friends) and 2. Tell me why I would spend $13-$290 (yes, that's right) on a tool that can be replaced by a can of cherry pie filling I can get off my grocer's shelf for a buck.
Who’s your audience here, Sharon? Even McDonald's no longer sells cherry pies which means a billion people rejected it. Wait, unless you’re reaching out to the Facebook group that's urging McDonald's to bring it back. It could happen, they are 250 strong...that's a bucket load according to your calculations.
But, I digress, let's just get this over with. I spent about $10, $5 on the cherries/$5 on the pastry puff (double check my math.) Mackenzie, my 18-year-old daughter, assisted me. I assure you she's qualified as she took advanced foods her senior year. It took us seven minutes to pit 35 cherries...I know an ETERNITY. At minute four we couldn't help but think that we'd probably be done already if we had the advantage of the fancy gadget Sharon had. Fifty minutes later they were in the oven. Did you know that puff pastry actually "puffs up" as it cooks? It's like a shrinky dink, but different. And since it smelled so great whilst it was baking I had to try it and to my surprise, I liked it.
I'm sending it over to The Guild for a second opinion as I might be confusing my new fondness of cherries with the adoration of the puff. When I make again, I'd use a can of pie filling as I figure it would shave off 30 minutes of prep time.. That is, of course, unless I had me one of them there fancy cherry-pitters, then strike that last comment.
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The Guild thought that the pies were a tad too sweet and that they would have been better had we used tart cherries with big granular sugar on top and for that Sharon responded that perhaps we could have squeezed a little lemon into the cherry mix filling....and then she instructed me to let the air out of their tires. On the otherhand, the girls at my office thought they were DYN-O-MITE...J.J. Walker worthy.
Can we conclude, from our small sampling that the older folks are looking for tart, and the younger ones for sweet? (if you're taking these w/ you for an afternoon at the playground-- make as is, but it you're heading out antiquing or quilting, add the lemon juice?) Hmmmm....???
Your hypothesis is based on an incorrect prejudical assumption that The Guild is full of Cottonheads...otherwise known as grey-haired ladies. Tread lightly around The Guild, Sharon.... They are masters of their craft and they carry Ginghers (google it). You've been warned.
hey, i know - my comment sounded ageist...(sp?) My apologies to The Guild....but not to you Lapota!
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