Raspberry Pie

This is for you Mom....
Last Saturday evening I decided to make a raspberry pie for my boys.
In this house a raspberry pie is a HUGE thing! I don't make pies
very often and my husband and my little boys love pies! And I'm not
misusing the work Love here. They truly Love pies!
Anyhow, while I was making these pies Matt was away somewhere with
the boys helping his dad do something. So I had a quiet house and I made pies.
And since it was quiet I could think!!! And I started to remember the one
Saturday many years ago when I was a little girl and Mom made ME help
her make her Sunday Pies! I felt very pleased and it was so fun! I remember
how mom showed me the way you can make fancy crimps to the edges w/ just
my fingers and thumb! I thought that was fantastic! AND this was the best
pie I've ever tasted made like that! I mean made like mom made pies. Who
would've ever thought that when mom started dumping flour in a bowl and
taking a spatula and digging out lard and taking her fingers into the salt and
grabbing a pinch of salt and getting water, however much she felt like in a
normal drinking glass and maybe a dash of vinegar and making it all turn into
this amazing flaky crust???? Isn't that kind of amazing?
She did make good pies! And EVERY Saturday!!!!
Do the rest of the family remember Mom's farm Sunday dinners?
Saturdays were good ole fashioned cleaning and making feasts for Sunday
I remember all the black shoes by the register in the green dining room
all in a heap ready to be polished. That was a rather weird dumb job....I remember
thinking that. They were all big ugly black shoes anyhow! It was fun making swipes w/ the polish bottle and watching it dry though!
And I remember we ALWAYS had company EVERY Sunday! And the company
was any stray we could get to come eat w/ us. And we ALWAYS used china
on Sundays....if we tried to use our everyday stuff we had to put it back
and start all over.
And then the dishes for Sunday dinners were for us three girls to do. Mom would
airily get up from the table and tell the guest lady "oh don't worry about the dishes, the
girls will do them"! I sometimes thought how interesting it would be to see those
moms come help us. They never did that I remember. One really good thing from
having to dishes was to be able to go back to that corner in the kitchen where the people
visiting at the table couldn't see us and finish up all the good stuff....we'd dig for the juiciest
left over chicken pieces or steak pieces or April and I learned how to keep
the cake all even....the cake needed a straight edge you know...so we'd cut slivers off
to eat and then the next person had that excuse to have another bite....I still like
that theory!
So here's a picture of my pie making....and this part is for my other mom....
My mom never made old fashioned fruit pies when I was home that I remember.
But Mom Burkey does and they are the best....her crust is truly amazing too. And
Her pies are nasty good! At Christmas or Thanksgiving she makes these amazing RICH
delicious cream pies and a good old fashion fruit pie. So this raspberry pie is her recipe.

She makes her good crusts and sometimes freezes it for use later....
Then she has four cups of berries and some flour and some sugar and some
lemon juice and some water and it all gets thrown in the pie shell and a lid on
top and baked till it bubbles and then ten minutes more!

and here is the delicious result! Hers look much more
old fashion and her lids aren't whole lids but this is the idea
anyhow! And when this pie was sitting here ALL the boys
in this house really thought it should have been eaten right
then. I was cruel and make them wait for Sunday dinner.
And it didn't last long at this house. I shall have to make
pies again sometime so we get use to them around here
a little more often.....

This picture is just from me trying to figure
out my camera...

And this is for Ryan to see a more updated version.