Pie-making

B, L and I headed to church this morning for the first shift of the youth group's pie-making/baking fundraiser. The kids sold apple, sweet potato and key lime pies for $25 each.

Everybody had jobs to do. I started off the morning opening 40 cans of sweetened condensed milk by hand then spent the rest of the time zesting limes and mixing up the key lime pie and sweet potato pie fillings. L zested limes and peeled apples, among other duties. B carried apple pies to the freezer and mashed the sweet potatoes.

Here's B overseeing his friend, A, and L as they lay out the crusts for the apple pies.

By the time B's shift was over at 1 p.m., the refrigerator was pretty full of apple pies.

And L had zested and juiced a lot of limes.

This picture was taken to show the fire department if, by chance, we blew up the basement trying to light the oven. It's a used, but new-to-the-church oven, so no one was sure where the pilot light was. We ended up calling a serviceman who unscrewed a panel under the oven and carefully lit the pilot. No fire emergency for the first shift, though there were quite a few cut fingers. I accidentally grated off part of my thumb nail. Ouch.

After our pizza lunch, B and A decided to whip up a batch of key lime filling. They were doing enough for three pies at once so they were putting their math skills to good use! B was not a fan of separating the egg whites from the yolks (too messy). I think he did like the trick A showed him how to quickly crack an egg by using another egg.