Fibbing Just To Stay in Practice
One of the funny things I missed while eating my way though Thanksgiving was this Sarah Hucky-booboo Sanders tweet.
Okay, first off, a southern woman would never, ever say they cooked a pie. They bake pies or even hustle one up. They never cook one.
Second off, you don’t get pie crust like that from a home baked pie. Home baked pies in the south have uneven lard-filled piece of art in crusty layers.
Third off, look closely at the lower left hand corner and you can see the little tin pan they use at all We Sell Pies places.
She lied about baking a pecan pie. I mean, what has your life become when you lie about baking pies?
You have become a Donald Trump handmaiden.
Even us Southern Canadian women bakes pies, no cook pies! 🙂 Imagine having to lie about something like this to make yourself feel more accomplished. Must be difficult and lonely being this needy.
1Not only did she “cook” the pie, she “managed” it. Probably by asking every little nut why they were thankful this Thanksgiving season, before they were allowed into the pie.
2Although I have an equally low opinion of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, I’ll hold it for now. I spect the pastry chefs of every ability here will eviscerate Sanders quite satisfactorily without my measly two cents.
3Chocolate pecan pie???? Wait a minute. I have just checked every southern cookbook I have and that kind of a pie is unknown. Probably because a good southern baker can tell the difference between a pie and a candy bar! As for “staying in practice”, Miz Sarah has obviously followed someone else’s advice on how to make her – and by extension, the Trump Administration – look to be just like your neighbors, this attempt is not going anywhere’s! Phoney don’t float!
4I have baked probably at least a hundred or more pecan pies in my 75 years (that it a low estimate). I make my pie crust from “scratch” use Texas pecans from San Angelo, and never in my life have I even dared to taint it by adding chocolate to it. My family would disown me I am sure. I am a dark chocolate addict, but it stops at adding it to pecan pie.
5Micr, I bake an acceptable pie for a northern white boy. But like you, I’m ready to sit back to enjoy the ripping show. For me pies and politics don’t mix, unless it’s a cream pie and Ann Coulter’s face.
6Maggie, Southern Living had a chocolate pecan pie recipe 30 years ago. I bake it a lot when the kids are home. That pictured pie ain’t nowhere near a chocolate pecan pie.
I now make Alton Brown’s recipe that calls for Golden Syrup instead of Karo. It is not as sweet.
7Well. . .there are a lot of chocolate-pecan pie recipes out there. Even Paula Deen has one. But none of them look even a little bit like the one Sarah illustrated with her claim. Unless she dumped chopped pecans and other ingredients into a pre-made crust and baked it so that it looked exactly like the plain pecan ones available at grocery stores in DC, I doubt that it’s hers. Maybe she bought one frozen and warmed it up?
8I have a recipe for Bourbon Chocolate Pecan I’ve had so long I don’t remember where I got it, maybe Southern Living. But, hers ain’t it, and I’m Southern born and bred. As you said,
9crust is giveaway. Top looks funny, too regular, no brown from chocolate. (My Japanese sister in law taught me to chop the pecans— great tip. I do out a few whole halves on the top.)
Bullshit in an aluminum pan topped with pecans. Pathetic!
Best pecan pie I ever ate and always begged for: my now deceased friend, Bill Brokaw, had a restaurant Called Cafe Brokaw. He made these pies with nuts through out the filling as well as on top. Family recipe, South Dakota.
10Sarah Hucky booboo may be your best yet, Juanita!
11Yup, that’s a pie, all right.
No sign of chocolate, though. And the crust does look manufactured, not made from scratch. In a disposable foil “store pan”. On a plain white background, with no shadows, like a stock photo, or something
Oh, Sarah. How can you lie so constantly, yet never get any better at it? Real deception needs some nuance, some salient details. But when it comes to lying, you’re as brazen and lazy as your boss.
12I’m a northerner. I bake pecan pies.
I have made chocolate pecan pie, it was delicious.
But my favorite is regular pecan pie.
How sad that a White House representative has to lie about what she “cooks”.
13Anybody who believes ANYTHING this trump whitehouse says is stupid and gullible.
The Southern boy I married and his family lived by River Road Recipes. My sainted mother in law gave me my first copy when I was a new bride. that book looked like it had been through a war by the time we buried it. This is the southern cookbook the family swore by. As far as they were concerned Southern Living was a fantasy created just to lure northerners south. Back when my husband was born there was a Depression and no one -except maybe Daddy Warlocks – had the money to buy chocolate for any reason. It also did not go with squirrel or whatever wildlife would be the main entree. The pecan pies were just that: home made with the pecans coming off the tree in the back yard. Sarah, you just lost your lifetime membership in Southern Girlhood!
14Since I no longer bake pies anymore. I can tell you that is a store bought pie. No question about it.
15@Jane & PKM
So true! I too enjoy cooking, but I prefer to cook in the cool of New Mexico near 35.949516, -105.880588. And I use an old, old Dutch oven from my childhood for my peach cobbler.
16Definitely a store-bought crust, but giving the benefit of the doubt she may have mixed the filling. Looks like either Oronoque or Mrs. Smith pie crust. Even I can make a pie like that using a store-bought crust.
17So maybe she bought a pie crust in a tin pie pan and filled it with her very own chocolate/pecan concoction. It’s possible, because she was on her way to “the family farm.” That’s the mystery I’m wondering about. Were all the Sanders family down in Arkansas for Thanksgiving, or do the Huckabees have a farm near D.C., or ??? Who does Sarah’s cooking nowadays for her family of husband and three children? I never doubted that she works at least 12 hours a day, and how she does it I don’t know, with three little ones to take care of. So her live-in helper (for whom she of course pays Social Security taxes) doesn’t bake? Who cares?
18But why oh why boast about making the stupid pie? Why post anything at all?
Ah, you are all missing the point. She obviously bought a FROZEN pie and then proceeded to “cook” it herself in her very own oven.
That counts for credit in the Orange Moron’s maladministration.
19old quaker, was that cafe in the area of Vermillion, Yankton or that neighborhood? Just curious.
I have a confession to make: When I bake a pie, I buy the crust. Yes, I do. The rolled up kind that I let warm up on the counter then unroll. I can make filling, but can’t make a pie crust to save my ever lastin’ soul! So I know I’m only a half-a$$ pie baker at best. My aunt Rita tried to teach me – lard, ice cold water. It just never took so I finally gave up and I’ve been buying the damn crust for the past 30 years and I’m a damn sight happier! (Stupid pie crusts anyway. Grrr.)
20I believe she did “manage” it — heck, I manage to go to the grocery store too. I learned to make a delicious lard crust about 60 years ago, thanks to my sainted grandmother. I’ve eaten many, many pies and have never seen a homemade pie with the kind of machine-fluted crust this one has. Nope — it’s just so much easier for everyone associated with Trump to lie — the sillier, the better.
21Obviously a stock photo. They think we are so stupid they don’t even have to lie well. Please, at least make an effort.
22Technically she didn’t lie. She didn’t say she cooked or baked it…just “managed” it.
23@Debbo: You and me both. I am not a baker. I’m quite a decent cook, but pie crust is beyond me. I’ll figure out how to fill it, but Pillsbury can (and does) make the pie crust for me. I also get the roll-your-own and crimp the crust myself, so I can fake it better than Sarah.
24Miss Huckleberry is busted on her pie claim
25http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/no-believes-sarah-huckabee-sanders-baked-pie-article-1.3654948
Mike,
Exactly, Sarah HS was busted for using a stock internet photo within a few hours. Did she actually ‘cook or manage’ what was probably a Marie Callenders or Pepperidge Farms storebought frozen pie? Probably.
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Jane & PKM says:
26“…unless it’s a cream pie and Ann Coulter’s face.”
Didn’t you misspell “cream”? Ought to be “cement”, right?
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Ahhh, now I remember my mom and grandmom’s scratch baking…mmmm. My ex’s,—shut up fool—… :]
Time called Ms Hucksterbee and offered to call her concoction “Pie of the Year” but she’s too humble to tell us.
27Photo of the so-called “family farm!”
https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/09/17/huckabee-pulled-political-strings-to-get-beach-home-permitted
28Poor Sarah just lies reflexively and can’t help herself. The apple definitely did not fall far from the tree…
29Apparently the picture was downloaded from PBS.
If felons commit felony, then God is an iron.
30First world problem, but dang, it’s funny
31First thing I noticed was the store bought crust, that and the fact that it’s so perfect it had to be made in an industrial bakery.
I do suspect that Mz Huckaboo has eaten many of those store bought pies, but in my family we BAKE our own.
32I prefer home made crusts if you know how to do it, and I love pecan or pumpkin pies, but would jump up and down to get a cocoanut cream pie. HOWEVER, holidays being what they are, and housekeeping isn’t my favorite activity, I druther buy a rolled up crust and roll it between sheets of wax paper and put it in a nice glass dish. I always use pecan pieces for pecan, and the award winning recipe from the FARM JOURNAL COOKBOOK. Pumpkin is even easier. Just be sure and remember the sugar. I buy a can of plain pumpkin and a can of evaporated milk and use the recipe on the can. And if anyone gets upset over a store bought pie, they can go eat somewhere else. HEB makes good pies. I just don’t like to use aluminum anything because it takes lots of energy to make aluminum and that is polluting unless you use wind or solar. Oh, and guests are welcome to furnish the dessert if they want to show off their baking. I think who we eat with is more important than what we eat. Imagine poor Sarah having to share lunch with Trump. Poor baby.
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