Food Friday: Some Pies

We made the trip safely from our home to my sister's home in North Carolina to spend Thanksgiving with her and her family and to help with the pie project.  As I write this on Thanksgiving Eve, it appears as if the project was a success.

Several people involved themselves and between us we made way more than 100 pies.  Apple, blueberry, cherry, pumpkin, sweet potato, peach, pecan, blackberry, chocolate pecan, and others.

Here are some of the ones my sister made:

These cherry pies are dressed in silicon shoulders to keep the edges of the crusts from browning too much, i.e. burning!

Here they are after cooking.  I think they look just plain lovely.  I probably will not eat any of this kind of pie because they turned out well.  In the background are some apple pies. Dear One peeled many apples and worked the corer/slicer.  His work was much appreciated.

It was a very long day.  My sister arose by 5:00 AM, made blueberry muffins for us and, by the time we showed up on the scene, she had already made some pies and was just about ready to head to work.

My brother-in-law, Dear One, and I made many pies during the day and finally my sister put the last ones (more pecan pies) in the oven around 9:15 PM. I think she is going to watch a little football while they are cooking.  I retired!