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National Pi Day - Thursday, March 14 Take 2
Paul Reavley
Mar 10 #35215

Haven't heard anything from the Cookie contingent yet, but There Will Be Pie.
2nd Annual Pie or Cookie ExtravaPieganza

Duncan Howat
Mar 10 #35216

No health food cookies , right .

Paul Reavley
Mar 10 #35217

There will be fructose, sucrose, etc. Burn 2 tbsp glucose with your paddle beforehand to balance….

Paul Reavley
Mar 10 #35218

And bring cup & eating paraphernalia (we may bring a few spares but otherwise you may have to just use your hands (not so good for coffee) )

Reivers Dustin
Mar 10 #35219

OK, so this is a new thing (to me), use vodka in your pie crust. If you just do the normal water in your pie crust recipe, then the water & flour form glucose making the crust tougher. Crusty like bread. So what you do is cut the water with vodka which does not combine with the flour forming glucose. This makes fluffly pie dough.

Of course I just actually buy the premade and drink the vodka. I would proly burn down the kitchen if I did anything but wash the dishes in my kitchen.

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Paul Reavley
Mar 10 #35220

I use vodka in my pie crust - equal parts water and vodka - the vodka bakes off, but provides enough moisture to make the dough workable when you are rolling it out.

Duncan Howat
Mar 13 #35233

In addition, I’ll bring a table, but people that don’t want to stand should bring a chair.

Reivers Dustin
Mar 14 #35234

No barnacles were harmed during today's Pi Day. A few dietary restrictions were injured. Some circular dimensions were inflamed. I thought I knew Pi, but there was a “throw-down” of how many digits. I only knew two digits past the decimal. The winner was Dorothy at 3.14159. So I had to eat crow on that one.

Next year I'm going with 3.14159265

And Santa Claus is real.

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Denise Weeks
Mar 14 #35235

And the best dessert winner is . . . impossible to say! Who could sample all those wonderful round offerings? I only got through two. Both delicious.

Thank you to Riley for showing up with a warm pie that was Peter’s favorite recipe—sour cream, apple, pecan!—and leaving it in my cold hands to go off to work. Work! And to Paul for getting the ball rolling and bringing THREE pies, and to Reivers for coffee and cookies and creamer and a table, and to Duncan for a table WITH a lovely tablecloth, plus cookies, and David S, for cookies that needed an explanation, and Dorothy for knowing the most numbers in pi and bringing a zesty lemon one, and Beau for bringing drinks and standing around in shorts and flipflops, making us think that sun was warmer than it was. And everyone else.

I didn’t even paddle. I just went for the pie.

John Rybczyk
Mar 14 #35242

Jackie CA is too modest to post this here but, a few years back, one of her kids memorized pi to, well I can't remember exactly, but I think was to the 3,000,000 place.