ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF LINDA JOHNSON Executive Director [email protected] JULIE DIDION Community Relations Director 5020 Ryan Rd, Toledo, OH 43614 P: 419-389-0800 F: 419-389-0819 FEBRUARY 2021 [email protected] KRYSTAL ADKINS Resident Care Coordinator [email protected] JENNIFER DAZELL Since we can’t gather in person, we're Business Office Manager February of each year is the Great [email protected] asking family bakers to send us your American Pie Month. Look it up. It's true. prettiest pie on Feb 19th by 12:00 for our Pies have been around for thousands of JODI KIMBALL Tastes Like Home Pie Baking Contest! Activity Director years. In Ancient Egypt bakers used to fill Please share your story: [email protected] bread dough with honey, fruit, and nuts 1. What’s your connection to your pastry? and serve it to the Pharaoh. There are 2. Is it a family recipe? or something new? KILEY CULKOWSKI drawings depicting this on the tomb walls Dining Room Manager Send us some pictures too: [email protected] of Ramses II. 1. An overhead beauty shot of your pie The first pie recipe was published 2. A shot of you with the pie you made ELLEN MATTESON thousands of years ago on a tablet by the 3. Your pie in action: Maybe it's you or Housekeeping Romans and was for a rye-crusted goat your kids eating pie, or a messy cheese and honey pie. countertop, or your favorite cookbook! PETE MOLINA The first pie to be eaten in the United 1st Ribbon, $50 Maintenance States was in 1620, when the pilgrims 2nd Ribbon, $25 brought their favorite family pie recipes 3rd Ribbon, $10 with them to America. These were Pie Contest Rules: English-style, meat-based recipes. 1. This contest is open to bakers of all ages! 2. Pies must be entered in the name of the The first pumpkin pie was recorded in a resident family who made it. cookbook in 1675 and became popular in 3. Each Pie must be made from scratch and the 1800s. It’s our love for a sweet-tasting based in a 9” – 10” pie plate/pan. Each pie pie that makes an American pie must include a cover. You may not use pre- distinctive, and over the years it has made store-bought crust. become woven into our culture as a Judging by Residents at 2:00pm: symbol of tradition and the home. This is Each pie will be judged on the following, out of 25 possible points. The pie receiving the highest backed up by the fact that July 4, our total numerical value is the winner. nation’s birthday, is one of the most 1. Overall Appearance – points 1-5 popular days to bake and eat pie. 2. Crust – Color, Texture, Doneness – points 1-5 By 1990 our love for pied had blossomed 3. Filling – Consistency, Doneness – points 1-5 so much that the Great American Pie 4. Flavor – points 1-5 Month was declared to be February. 5. Creativity – points 1-5 Test Your Pie-Q How well do you know your pie trivia? Here, 10 questions to test your knowledge of pie baking, pie eating, pie history and famous pies in film, television, music and politics. 1. Approximately how much do Americans spend on supermarket pies each year? A. $260 million C. $2.3 billion B. $700 million D. $1.1 trillion At one time everything baked in a oven 2. What portion of Americans admit to having was pie. The earliest ovens were actually eaten an entire pie by themselves? A. 1 in 2 C. 1 in 10 large clay pots were fire was burned inside B. 1 in 5 D. 1 in 19 to heat them. Bread was baked in flat 3. Which of the following delicious fats is cakes on hot hearthstones. Meat was Due to the hard crust, between the 13th thought to maximize a pie crust's flakiness? cooked directly exposed to fire on spits or and 16th centuries, many pies held live A. Leaf lard C. Beef tallow over hot coals. birds, frogs and other small creatures, B. Duck fat D. Butter The problem of cooking meat this way is even dwarfs and sometimes a small 4. Which film features the first-known cinematic instance of a pie-in-the-face gag? that the thing got burnt. The tasty juices orchestra. These were contained inside the pie to emerge to enliven royal feasts A. Berlin Wintergarten Novelty Program (1895) dripped away and the meat was tough and B. Mr. Flip (1909) dry. They got around this problem by with entertainment. C. Duck Soup (1933) wrapping the meat with leaves or mud to D. The Great Race (1965) Sing a Song of Sixpence preserve the juices. Since dough seem like 5. On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Sing a song of sixpence, clay or wet mud, they wrapped the meat Homer into a rope trap? a pocket full of rye; A. Pumpkin pie C. "Floor pie" with dough made from flour and water to Four and twenty blackbirds B. Donut pie D. Mincemeat pie preserve the meat juices and prevent baked in a pie. 6. Which person has not been the victim of a burning. This created the primitive juicy public pie-ing? When the pie was opened, Pie Idioms meat pie. A. Ann Coulter C. Julian Assange the birds began to sing, 1. As Easy As Pie The crust of this medieval pie formed B. Bill Gates D. Andy Warhol Wasn't that a dainty dish Meaning: something that is easy or simple. like a baking dish. This serve for hundreds 7. Which of the following is not an actual song? to set before the king? A. "Pie on the Sly" by Prince 2. As Sweet As Pie of years as the only form of baking B. "Flaming Pie" by Paul McCartney Meaning: used to describe a person that is very container for cooking over a fire or in a fire How in the world did they do this? Well in C. "Promises Like Pie-Crust" by Carla Bruni kind or friendly. oven. Thus the meaning everything was medieval times the way they made pie D. "Slice of Your Pie" by Motley Crüe 3. A Piece Of The Pie E. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" by Charles Mingus baked in a pie. crusts was a little different than in present Meaning: a part of something bigger. To divide 8. What is the filling specified in the oldest pie something up. The crust to these medieval pies served time. The crust was thick, and could be other functions. It acted as a carrying and recipe on record, which dates to the second 4. As American As Pie baked first, and would rise forming a pot, century B.C.? storage container. By excluding air from Meaning: used to someone or something that is hence the term "pot pie." The lid would be A. Strawberry and rhubarb American or something that is indicative of the its host, it help preserve the filling of meat removed from the pie, and the birds would B. Goat cheese and honey American lifestyle. or vegetables. then be set inside, the lid put back on, and C. Lamb and thyme 5. To Have A Finger In Every Pie D. Figs and pears These medieval early pie crusts were Meaning: a person that is involved in many then this wildly entertaining dish placed 9. Which of the following terms does not called coffins. It sounds bad today. It before the host of the party. different activities. conveys the contents were dead. In fact describe a variety of pie? So these birds were not actually cooked A. Pasty C. Bedforshire clanger 6. Promises Are Like Pie Crust the word originally meant a basket or box. in the pie. Cooks would get quite B. Coulibiac D. Fleischkuekle Meaning: Promises are easy to make, but they are also just as easy to break. This term was used first to describe a competitive at feasts, and try to outdo Answers: 1-B; 2-B; 3-D; 4-B; 5-C; 6-C; 7-A; 8-B; Do you know any others? pastry casket of food before it came to other lords and ladies' cooks. 9-Trick question—these are all pies. refer to the funeral session. African American History Month Pie Making Tips The Library of Congress, National Here are some great tips when baking a Archives and Records Administration, pie from the experts at the American Pie National Endowment for the Humanities, Council: National Gallery of Art, National Park 1. Read the recipe in its entirety before Service, Smithsonian Institution and United beginning. Make sure you have all of the States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in ingredients and utensils and that you paying tribute to the generations of African understand all of the directions. Many Americans who struggled with adversity to mistakes have been made skipping steps. achieve full citizenship in American society. 2. Cold ingredients are essential to making The Full Snow Moon As a Harvard-trained historian, Carter G. What is Pie and what is Not Pie? a great pie crust It even helps to have cold Got your snow shovels ready? Woodson, believed that truth could not be Believe it or not a concise definition bowls and utensils. In addition, be sure to February’s Full Snow Moon rises on the denied and that reason would prevail over for pie does not exist that everyone agrees chill the dough for at least an hour before night of February 26th and peaks in the prejudice.