Pie disaster

[pegkerr]

Delia, my skilled little baker, made a homemade apple pie today from scratch. She went up to take a shower, and so she asked Rob to put foil around the edge of the crust in fifteen minutes. I didn't know that she had done that, so I went down to check the pie about fifteen minutes later myself. My jaw dropped when I pulled it out. There was foil halfway over the top, but the entire top crust was gone.

Rob, apparently, in the act of taking the pie out of the oven, caught the pie on the oven door handle and flipped it. He flipped it back, but the top crust was so shredded that he discarded it. It looks awful and there are probably bits of pie burning in the oven as I write this. Delia was in tears at first, but I told her it would be a funny story in years to come.

"How could you absolutely destroy a pie in the act of taking it out of the oven?" I asked Rob, mystified.

"I was asleep," he defended himself. "And I'm sure it will taste fine."

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Do you read pameladean? If not, go read her entry from yesterday. Delia should read it too.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I already put this story as a comment on her post!

The Ghods...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Must be hungry for pie this season...

[sraun]

It's a funny story already! As long as you aren't one of the principles.

Have a good thanksgiving!

[cantkeepsilent.livejournal.com]

The most delicious pie will be entertaining for an evening, but a humorously destroyed pie will be a delight for fifty Thanksgivings. Hopefully this will be the first. :)

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Thanksgiving Rule #4: Sleepy people are not permitted within 6' of appliances!

The only thing that would have made this funnier is if Rob had tried to patch the top crust back together and then feigned total innocence.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! I suppose Delia won't trust Dad around pies any time soon! (Should probably penalize him one piece too!)

[aome.livejournal.com]

I once had one of my precious (and usually reliable) chocolate cakes not turn out for some mysterious reason. In my frustration, I smudged a handful of cake across my Mom's cheek. A cake-fight ensued. :D Definitely something to laugh at, out of the disappointment and frustration. *hugs* to Delia - I hope the rest of the day goes better. Enjoy your dinner, and Happy Thanksgiving!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Clearly he should only be allowed near apple CRUMBLE pies.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Delia. I hope she's comforted by yum.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

We had Thanksiving 1991: the year we announced our engagement to his family and the turkey caught fire.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

When I was about 17 or 18, I took a pie out of the oven for my mother for some holiday dinner. Unfortunately, I had the previous day had some serious dental work done (wisdom teeth, maybe?), and I was under the influence of codeine, which has always had the effect of making me uncoordinated.

Pie, meet floor.

I'm sure Delia's pie was still yummy!

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Lord, my pie's crust collapsed, and I thought that was bad enough. Poor Delia.

[lavendersleeves.livejournal.com]

On my mom's birthday, she made and frosted her own cake. Then my dad came home, saw that it wasn't frosted, and put a different frosting on.

When all accounts were compared, we realized that our dog (a yellow lab) had come in, licked all the frosting off the cake, and then left the cake itself in the pan.

And then we ate it anyway.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I think you're right that it will be a funny story later. Besides,the taste is what really counts. My sister made me a birthday cake one year when she was home from college for Christmas break. It was a nice layer cake. She baked it at our mother's house and frosted it while it was still hot then walked out the door with it - into sub-freezing weather. By the time she got across the street and down the block to my house the middle of the cake had fallen in. Cakes really don't like temperature changes like that. It may have been the ugliest birthday cake I've ever been given but it was also one of the best-tasting birthday cakes I've had. It is much easier to laugh about it now than it was at the time.