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Hello Squirrels,
Hope you are well and enjoyed the holidays and your vacation. Perhaps you watched a few episodes of the Great British Bakeoff like Larry the Squirrel, our mascot, and I did. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times Larry and I watch the Great British Bakeoff, we get excited for Pie Week, only to see that they are making savory meat pies. Yuck! Larry is hoping for a peanut pie and I’m hoping for cherry.
With Larry and my love for fruit and nut pies and the holiday season just behind us, this issue of Squirrels at the Door newsletter is about pies: their history, their quirks, and their deliciousness. We've got poems to pies, prayers for pies, recipes, cream pies in the eye, United States Supreme Court rulings on pies, and a pie crossword puzzle.
This issue even includes a new story starring the sisters of Over the Falls in a Suitcase as they bicker over a pie. It’s called How to Eat a Pie—but it could be called Over the Falls in a Pie.
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We answer your burning pie questions, like:
What were the first pies like?
Did you know that the crusts of the first pies were called coffins?
Were four and twenty blackbirds really baked in a pie?
That and a lot more!
Is Anything as American as Apple Pie?
The apple pie helped us win the Revolutionary war, but one president preferred a different dessert.
But is a Magpie a pie?
What came first? Pie or magpie?
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Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer, famously said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Ignoring Carl Sagan, we've got pie recipes from the easiest (open a can and roll out a store-bought crust) to trying your hand at a simple pie crust. We've even got a Mickey Mouse pie because Mickey loves pie:
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Can the sisters from Over the Falls in a Suitcase resist a cherry pie saved for company?
Find out in a story with a new character.
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Hope you enjoyed this edition of Squirrels at the Door. Maybe we’ve inspired you to make a pie or two. Or maybe three. Or four... maybe you could have your own Pie Week. Be sure to send us any pictures of your pies! We'll see you all next time!
Kathy, Larry, & friends
Squirrels at the Door
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