HELLO...hello....hello.... Can you hear me ? Kinda echos in this here box. Chip snores a bit also. Anyway, my wife still makes fried pies. My mom used to be the family champ, but Joanna has taken over the honors, much to mom's annoyance. She made up a big bunch of Apple and Peach, and I took 'em to work. We have many yankee imports there, who had never heard of them. They seem to think that Hostess or Colonial or some other Company made something like that, and it wasn't very good. Well, they noticed that all the Southern Boys were stuffing them down, while stealing an extra one or two, for next break. They finally tried a few, and a fight almost broke out. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to "stash" a few for myself, and thus got left out. They now beg me to bring some more, and have even taken up collections to buy more dried apples and peaches, if she will only make some more pies. One guy wanted the recipe for his wife, so she could try her hand. It's hard to believe that some company doesn't try to market a REAL fried pie. I think that they would bring almost any price that they had the nerve to ask. A small bakery (Dutch Maid, I think), up in Grundy County did make them for several years, and wrapped them in waxed paper. Alas, they are no more :-( They weren't as good as home made, of course, but ran a pretty good 2nd place, in a pinch. -- Jess Lewis >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/ << >> http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm <<