Shirley's Recipes

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!!!!![[~Melek]] &mdash; [-01 December 2015, 20:56-]
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I love my Pyrex pie plates and have many of them in vuroias sizes - I like to pick them up for less than $1 at yard sales, junk shops or Goodwill! I am always on the lookout for small glass pie pans - about the 4-6 inch size - they are great for making a sweet individual pie for a birthday girl or boy, or to give a little taste of home cooking to our elderly neighbor who lives all alone and is over 90! Wee pie plates are hard to find, so I grab them when I see them. Glass is perfect because it make a flakier crust - just the way it conducts the heat I think - and you can see if it is nicely golden, or needs a minute more of baking! I love your product reviews, Aunt Ruthie - peeking into your kitchen inspires me every time! Happy baking!
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!!!!![[~Mariana]] &mdash; [-04 May 2014, 02:32-]
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Wow. I love your site! This is my first visit here, as you can probably tell.I paolrnelsy can't get by without my Pyrex pie dishes when baking pies. Here's the curious thing, though: My Mom has a round Pyrex cake dish. The other one broke years ago. She doesn't use it much, but me, I wanted a complete set in which to bake a traditional two-layer cake. (Most of my family are not into cooking all that much — for them, a cake dish is a 9 13!)So when I realized last year that my 1960s oven has seen better days, it occurred to me that it would be so much better to compensate for how unevenly it heats by baking cakes in a Pyrex dish — but all that's on store shelves nowadays are the pie dishes!I want to see all my baked items through those great dishes. If one side bakes faster, you can simply turn them around and easily watch them from the underside.For the life of me, I can't figure out why Pyrex discontinued the very dish that started their company so many decades ago.I wrote to them and they confirmed that the cake dishes are gone.All that are left on the market are the metal kind. They get scratched and dented up in my crowded cupboards pretty fast.Now I'm on eBay searching — and finding that the vintage Pyrex cake dishes are a pretty penny!
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1 teaspoon vanilla\\

Food Group: sugar\\

Source: John & Ruth Lewis(Fanny Farmer)\\

Source: John & Ruth Lewis(FannyFarmer)\\

3/4 cup sugar\\