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Swapping Pies Means More Holiday Dessert Options
By
Laura Skillman
HAWESVILLE, Ky., (Nov. 29, 2006) – Are you in a rut and looking
for a new holiday dessert? Then, you may want to try what the
Hancock County office of the University of Kentucky Cooperative
Extension Service did just before Thanksgiving – a pie swap.
Women and men were encouraged to make two desserts, one for
themselves and one to bring to the swap to exchange for someone
else’s creation. The idea was that everyone would end up with
two pies for their Thanksgiving dinner. Recipes accompanied the
swapped pies.
Following in the tradition of the “Dirty Santa” game,
participants drew numbers and made their selections but had to
surrender their choice if the next person wanted the selection.
This continued until the final person made their selection – a
cream pie from a recipe from the baker’s grandmother.
Katie Englert, Hancock County Extension agent for family and
consumer sciences, based the pie swap idea on a cookie swap she
coordinates each year with friends.
“It’s the first one in Hancock County; it’s my first year here,”
she said. “I have a cookie swap every year around Christmas
time, but Christmas time is a little hectic. So I thought with
the pies, they are kind of a Thanksgiving thing. So I thought it
could be a special thing to do with people out in the community
and be fun.”
While the creations were mostly pies, one batch of cookies was
highly sought after by the swappers.
“I opened it up to any kind of dessert. You didn’t have to make
a pie. It could be a cake or anything you are good at,” Englert
said.
Joan Newman brought her grandmother’s cream pie to the swap and
took home Englert’s pumpkin pie.
“It’s my grandmother’s recipe,” Newman said. “It’s a family
favorite. Mother makes it every year for Christmas and
Thanksgiving and other holidays. My father was a pumpkin pie
eater and since he’s passed nobody’s eaten pumpkin pie. He was
the only one who liked it, but we’re going to give this one a
try. It will be eaten, if not at my house, I’ll take it to
Mother’s.”
Jenny Shultz brought her grandmother’s chocolate pecan pie, also
a family favorite.
“My cousin thinks if it’s not at Thanksgiving dinner, he
protests,” she said. “My grandmother is still making it and I
called her last night and said ‘I want the recipe to your
chocolate pecan pie.’ She said it was super easy, and I said
that’s what I’m looking for.”
Shultz went home with a peanut butter cream pie.
“It looks yummy,” she said. “I love peanut butter and chocolate.
That’s my favorite combination of anything. Anything with peanut
butter and chocolate is good. And I knew my husband would help
me eat it so I wouldn’t eat it by myself.”
Englert said she hopes to make the pie swap a Hancock County
Thanksgiving tradition. |
Contact: Katie Englert, 270-927-6618 |
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