Day 36 - November 11, 2009

Day 36:

This morning everyone who would be participating in the Lee's Food Show was to meet at Lee's in Logan at 7am to shop for all of our ingredients. We ended up with so much stuff! After we finished there, we all headed back to school.

When I got to school I felt so much better than I had the last couple of days. My stomach ache was mostly gone, thank goodness.

Today my job was to remake my pie crusts and bake off my derby pie. This time I used the same measurements for both the flour and butter, but ended up cutting it in half instead of doubling it. I used 1 1/2 pounds flour, 1/2 pound butter, 1/2 pound shortening and 1/2 pound of water. It ended up so much better! They were much easier to roll out and making the edges on them was so much easier. I baked them inverted again and this time when we flipped them, the shells came out just fine! Yay!

I filled one of them and started to bake it. I only had about an hour and 10 minutes before the lunch we were serving so I was nervous it wouldn't get done fast enough. I put it in the convection oven which was a huge mistake. It browned the pie way too fast while leaving the inside super gooey and not cooking it fast enough. I switched it to the floor oven and by the time we took it out the top was all sorts of dark and starting to burn. I was so disappointed. I have never EVER burned a derby pie of mine before and of course it had to happen while I was at school for a lunch we were serving. We cut it open and I was so upset, it just wasn't right so I tasted it and all I could taste was the burned part. Everyone else tasted it and said it was fine, not fantastic but not horrible. Rex would have served it, but after seeing the look on my face pulled out Meghan's Boston Creme Pie she had made that day and we served that instead.

After all was said and done, Rex told me that he wanted me to remake the pie again. I asked him if I could just make it at home and bring it in and he told me no. I had to make it there. I asked him why and he told me it was so I could have confidence to cook in any kitchen and have it turn out anywhere. Sucky.

I'm not very anxious to start that again, but I'll be doing it sometime. Next time I will be using the floor oven for the entire cooking.