Ice Cream! In a pie!! Heavenly!!!
Yippee!! The Pieathalon is here again.
I do love a pie, so I’m delighted to be part of the community of food bloggers around the world who roll up their sleeves and bake a vintage pie (pre-1990 – yikes, this definition makes me feel positively antique…) for the annual Pieathalon. Thanks to Yinzerella, hostess of this fabulous event, for organising us all.
My contribution this year was nearly thwarted by setbacks along the way, but I got there in the end.
First I forgot to even nominate a pie before I headed off to the US for a trip – I sub-contracted the job to my lovely friend Jenny, of Silver Screen Suppers fame. I must admit she sounded a bit power-crazed at the prospect – I know she chose Tansey, but I have no idea what that is or which book it’s from and am looking forward to reading all about it!
Jenny and I discovered that Taryn, of Retro Food for Modern Times, would be visiting the UK around Pieathalon time, so we planned to get together and dine on pies. Well, I say “dine” but more of that anon…
Anyhow – I got my pie – Frosty Vanilla Cream Pie, from The Pillsbury Family Cookbook, published in 1963, a very good year, in my opinion.
I don’t know if it’s cheating, but I defrosted some sweet pastry I’d made previously.
I’d planned to make my pie in the afternoon, ready for dinner at Jenny’s, but I woke up unfeasibly early for no apparent reason and decided I might as well get on with it. While the pastry was chilling, I started on the frosty vanilla cream, which is very straightforward. If you’re going to try this, best not to use a hand held blender if possible – the blending till soft peaks formed took more like 10 minutes and nearly finished off my blender. It was only when I got to the end of the recipe that I noticed I was meant to keep some of the pastry crumb to sprinkle on the top of the pie – I think it looked rather lovely with dried rose petals instead.
So it was all looking good, plenty of time in the freezer while I joined the rest of the Battenburg clan and headed off to the flicks to watch The Incredibles 2. Very decadent on a Saturday lunchtime.
Then, setback number two. I was just settling in for the ads and trailers when I got this text from Jenny: “How is your pie? Just checking you know its a lunchtime affair today? xx”. Nope. I did not know that. I called Jenny and we agreed that she may have omitted to mention to me the timing of our piefest. I’d paid good money, so I decided to watch the film, dash home, super-hero style, and get the pie to hers in time for dessert.
Excellent film – glad I stayed for it.
By the time I got to Jenny’s, lunch was well under way. Well it was more or less finished actually, so I grabbed a plate of the lovely selection of salads Jenny had prepared. She had been allocated a sweet pie with onions in it. Suffice to say, no one took a second helping. Taryn made a pineapple meringue pie, which I had a little slice of. It was good, but I’ll be sticking with lemon meringue, I think.
My dish was basically ice cream in a pie. And what’s not to like about that!
Read about more pies:
- Apricot Meringue Pie by Eliot’s Eats
- Chocolate Mousse Pie by Kelli’s Kitchen
- Cool Mint Cookie Pie by The Book of Cookrye
- Dutch Peaches and Cream Pie by Vintage Recipe Cards
- French Raspberry Pie by Tortillas and Honey
- Aloha Meringue Pie by The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook
- Kate’s Pie by Dinner is Served 1972
- Lemon Beer Sponge Pie by Homicidal Homemaker
- Marguerite Patten’s Cheese Pie by Velveteen Lounge Kitsch-en
- Mock Pecan Pie by MyCustardPie.com
- Olde English Eggnog Pie by HeritageRecipeBox.com
- Peaches and Cream Tart by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
- Puddin n’ Pie by The Sound of Vincent Price & Vincent Price Legacy UK
- Ritz Cracker Mock Apple Pie by Dr. Bobb’s Kitschen
- Seafoam Cantaloupe Pie by Recipes4Rebels
- Strawberry Ginger Pie by Granny Pantries
- Sweet Onion Pie by Silver Screen Suppers – The Wonderful World of Film Star Eating and Drinking
- Tansey by The Nostalgic Cook
- The Millionaire by Once Upon a Salad
- Tyler Pie by A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Vincent Price Pineapple Meringue by Retro Food for Modern Times
- Weight Watchers “Almost a Pie” by BookClub CookBook
- Yul Brenner’s Walnut Pie by Vintage Cookbookery
The rose petals add a totally extra-fancy touch! I think much better than the original. Your comments about sub-contracting Jenny for recipe submission cracked me up! How fun it’s been to read about your pie soirée from 3 different blog perspectives… Very enjoyable read!
It was definitely fun to get together to compare notes and taste a selection of pies!
Good thing you awoke early and had your pie ready to go. I loved the second Incredibles too.
I know – it would have been SO easy to lounge about in bed and read the newspaper!
Greg is so right about hearing about the pie party from all 3 of you.
And hell yes to an ice cream pie!
Thank you for joining in again I wish I could’ve been at that party
It was great fun – as ever! Thank you for all your hard work in making it happen 🙂
Ice cream in a pie – there’s almost no way to go wrong with that!
I know!!
It’s so cool that the three of you got to do the Pieathalon together! The pie looks pretty good.
Yes – it was a lot of fun!
Your pie was soooo good! Loved it and loved seeing you again! xx
Really great to see you again, if only briefly 🙁
I would guess that the majority of my cookbooks are definitely retro. You need to get a hold of some pre-1990!
I’m so glad to hear the pie recipe was a success! It sounded like a nice and cool pie for the summer. That is so awesome that you were able to get together with the other two ladies to try their submissions!!!
Really tasty recipe! I will probably make it again, with or without the pie 🙂
I love the creative leap from pastry crumbs to rose petals. Also the pie looks divine, and I loved reading about the… interesting time you had trying to serve it.
Yeah – it was all a bit of a mad rush in the end, but I did manage to pack a lot into one day!
Haha – loved your comment about my Sweet Onion Pie “Suffice to say, no one took a second helping.” You are always so good at the “damning with faint praise” type phrase. Your pie was SOOOOOO good. Make it again sometime please?! So loved our afternoon with Taryn – what a lovely thing the Pieathalon is.
It sounds like so much fun to get together and try each other’s pies. Ice Cream pie sounds good even if you had set-backs.