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@Background Pony #6285  
I think it’s 9 1/2.
 
Odd that one can of filling isn’t enough for a single pie.

@yelling_into_the_void  
Is it a 9” pie pan? Are you buying canned pie filling in 20 ounce cans? That’s why.
 
The rule of thumb for a 9” fruit pie is that you will need at least two 20 ounce cans, or at least two pounds of fruit to fill it, once the fruit has been washed, peeled, cored, pitted, and so on. Sugar or your favorite sweetener (I have had good luck this year with a stevia based mixture in fruit pies) to taste, maybe 1/2 cup to 1 cup.
 
A fruit pie also needs starches to thicken the material and hold it all together so that the fruit stays in the slice of pie and the slices don’t disintegrate. This can be 1/2 cup to 1 cup of cornstarch, all purpose flour, white cornmeal, or a combination thereof, either sprinkled over the fruit once you arrange it in the pie shell. Or for soft fruit, like blueberries, set aside about three quarters of a cup after washing them and put them in a blender or food processor. Then blend into it the sugar and the starches until the fruit mixture is uniform. Pour the fruit mixture into a bowl and dump in the rest of the fruit. Stir to coat. Then put everything into the pie shell and assemble the top cover onto it. Bake for 1 to 1 and a half hours at 350 to 375 degrees, or until the filling is fully cooked and the top crust is golden brown.

I made a Dutch apple pie. Turns out my pie pan is so deep it can hold two cans of pie filling.

@ᏰᎯᎠᎻᎬᎯᏒᎿ  
I don’t even know where to get gopher, let alone eat it.

@ᏰᎯᎠᎻᎬᎯᏒᎿ  
If you’re going to eat rodents, you don’t abide by a recipe, or any kind of plan. You just gopher it. I am so, so sorry.

I just made a pie with frozen mixed berries and stevia sweetener for the filling. For a 9” pie I normally add two tablespoons each cornstarch, all purpose flour, and white cornmeal to the filling as a thickener, and bake for about an hour and ten minutes at 375 (190 C.) I’ll see how it comes out after it cools off.
 
My crust recipe: one 6 2/3 ounce stick butter-flavored vegetable shortening (this is about one cup by volume, or 240cc, or about 190g) plus 2 2/3 cups (640cc by volume, or about 340g by weight) sifted all purpose flour, plus one teaspoon (10 cc) each salt, sugar, and apple cider vinegar. I sift together the dry ingredients and cut the shortening and the flour mixture together to form a crumbly mass, then add the vinegar, then just enough cold water to form a pliable dough that can be rolled easily. This makes enough for a top and bottom pie crust, or two individual crusts for 9” (22.5cm) pies.
 
I normally use about 20-24 ounces by weight of fresh fruit for a pie. This is 570-680g of fruit. Usually I add a little lemon juice and lemon zest, regardless of what kind of pie I am making, because I like the way the flavors combine. Previously I usually added one cup granulated sugar, or seven ounces, 240cc, or 200g, plus the starches. Today’s pie is an experiment with non-sugar sweetener.
 
Also with soft fruits like berries, I take between one fourth and one third of them and blend them smooth in a food processor, then slowly add to them the sugar and starches. I stir the rest of the fruit into this mixture and use this as filling.
 
I have a slice of the pie now. It’s not bad. It’s not as sweet as it would have been with one cup of sugar. The label on the stevia sweetener said it was equivalent volume for volume and it doesn’t really seem to be, though I also suppose the berries could have been more acidic than usual. I think it came out well. My doctor says I need to reduce the amount of processed sugar in my diet, and maybe this is a step in that direction.

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A reply by Kikko Man:  

 
Whatever do you mean? It really does go great on everything!

@byte[]  
Imagine buying Kikkoman for soy sauce.
 
This post was sponsored by Habhal.

@KikkoMan  
Really now that’s false.

@KikkoMan  
I bet you were paid off by Big Soy Sauce to say that one, Kikkoman!

A message from Kikko Man:  

 
Soy sauce goes great on everything~

caught part of a Slice of Life Drama where the chick tries to get the Family to ‘eat heart healthy’
 
by servering them veggie burgers made from mung beans.
 
reminded me of some of the real ones ive tried.
 
yes, most of them tasted like crap, but there were some that were decent and at least one I found was really good.
 
Morning Star brand Grillers Prime. Tastes pretty much like the average fast food patty.

Today I made an apple pie of sorts, using canned applesauce as filling. To a 24 ounce can of applesauce I added two tablespoons sugar and one teaspoon cinammon. This was just the right amount of filling for a 9” pie shell. I am pleased with how it came out. My mother made pies with applesauce filling frequently when I was a child.

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@Background Pony #5045
 
It was very fragrant anyway…

@pixel  
It’s like the “That’s a lotta damage!” meme, but with vanilla.

@yelling_into_the_void  
oof

@yelling_into_the_void  

 
So… I tried doubling the vanilla, but I misread teaspoon as tablespoon…

stumbled across a recipe for Hardtack, remembered how … interesting the stuff was.
 
but then that’s the stuff made by a pro.. and with this sort of thing it comes down to the right equipment and experience.

@Background Pony #5045  
Maybe if I was making lasagna, but it was macaroni and cheese, so not really.

@yelling_into_the_void  
Was it accidentally delicious?

I accidentally used Italian sausage to make Hamburger Helper.

I’ve just made a batch of oatmeal cookies, and they came out well. The recipe was based on one printed on the side of the oat carton but I made a few small changes. I substituted butter for the vegetable shortening listed. I used oats that had been ground to coarse flour that I have on hand–I do this so that they will cook more quickly for porridge in the morning. I substituted brown sugar for the granulated white sugar, and I added just a small amount of cinnamon, because I felt it would go well with the oatmeal flavor. I substituted chocolate chips for the raisns.
 
At the stage of adding the oat flour the dough became very dense and stiff, and if I make a habit of this a stand mixer with a dough hook would be more suited to mixing it than a hand-held electric mixer.
 
I am very pleased with how they came out.

@Background Pony #6CE3
 
Yeah, that sounds familiar. In the years after the war and after the “economic miracle” (Wirtschaftswunder) in Germany, convenience and fast food enjoyed great popularity here too. Especially during the 1970s, when the sexual revolution led to more and more single households. My late father was a child of that generation and loved convenience food all his life.
 
Well, I myself had phases in my life in which I hardly had any money and also had to feed myself mainly through cheap convenience food. I have also tried to refine these meals a little bit, but if the basis of a meal is not very good, you should not expect miracles. That is why I try as best I can to limit myself to fresh ingredients.
 
But of course I still often use frozen meat and canned side dishes. That’s just the downside of being single. ;-)