Baking is better with Pyrex!

Hi all!

This weekend I had to bake a bunch of pies to take to a barbecue but instead of my usual disposable pie tins I decided to utilize my extensive collection of Pyrex pie plates to make them look even better! (doubles only of course).

Getting ready to bake.

The chosen plates.

I made apple, peach raspberry, and blueberry sour cream pies. You can get all of the recipes here.

The results looked (and tasted) great:

Happy baking everyone!
xx Nicole

First charcoal snowflake!

There it was, just waiting for me: a charcoal snowflake divided dish! It passed the "finger around the edge check for chips" test, and I gleefully plunked down the $3.00 required by Goodwill.

It wasn't until I was home and washing it in the kitchen sink, that I turned it over and saw:

OMG!! It doesn't say PYREX! A funny logo instead...

Of course I went right to the computer and found out that I had apparently purchased a piece of Crown Pyrex, i.e. made in England.

This piece is marked with just the crown, not the JAJ plus crown stamp, so if anyone knows about these marks, I would be interested to hear.

So now we have Pyrex of three nations: the Canadian-made lime cake dish was recently thrifted for $0.75; it was half-price week at that thrift store.

And finally, here is my January 2012 kitchen display of blues and whites (Snowflake Blue, Horizon Blue, and opal).

Happy 2012, and good hunting!