These yummy little things here have caused
a bit of a conundrum, in that I didn’t know what they were. Well, I knew what they were, but I basically had to
set up a plebiscite to decide what they were called.
It all goes back to last weekend when I
went to this organic grocery store just around the corner from my house and got
this toffee apple cake from their café. Well it was dry like a desert but the
flavours were reeeeally good and cinnamony and very autumny. So I thought I’d
bake something equally as autumny because it’s quite in fashion at the moment
(heh), minus the I’m-eating-clay feel. And I went down the pastry route for
some nice buttery flakiness. The buttery pastry nature of them would make me
call them pasties, but as several interviewees pointed out, pasties are savoury
and savoury only. Also they are kind of just like apple turnovers, however
turnovers are triangular and these look much cuter right? So my very good
friend Google came to help and it turns out these are a thing in America. These
are called pies even though the pies I know look more like a wheel-shaped block of pig. But they are called pies the other side of the pond and they’re so
little and cute and you eat them with your hands so there you go, hand pies. A
Bonfire-night-meets-Halloween treat, I’m that international. For all my
international fans (?) to enjoy.
