PSA: Make sure you clearly label your Thanksgiving pie, or your roommates will think you’re dead

Since the holidays are here, it’s important to remember that open communication with your roommates is more important than usual. 
You don’t want sloppy handwriting to make them think you’ve been kidnapped.
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Thanksgiving taste testers ate lots of pie to see if ancient recipes hold up

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Thanksgiving means one thing: pie. And lots of it.

The UC Berkeley Library scoured its collection of 900 cookbooks to find old recipes for Thanksgiving pies and then baked them and put them to the test.

The library went deep and found a recipe for “pompkin” pie from the 1796 cookbook, American Cookery — the first known cookbook written by an American, according to the library.

Other recipes tested included a sweet potato pie from What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking from 1881 and quince pie from the 1940 book The Martha Washington Cook Book. Read more…

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A thorough and ridiculous step-by-step guide for baking pumpkin pie

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Pumpkins don’t get much love for 10 months of the year. It’s a sad time to be a pumpkin in the summer months, but come October that round orange plant reigns supreme. 

YouTube channel You Suck At Cooking offers a bizarre and somewhat detailed walkthrough on the art of baking the most delicious pumpkin food creation — the humble pumpkin pie. 

The video description reads: “Pumpkins are good for literally 2 things; making pumpkin pies, and throwing them off bridges. Well I’m all all out of bridges.”  

Well said.  Read more…

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