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Pumpkin Pie Season
Nov. 13th, 2021 03:54 pmIn the past two(ish) weeks, I've made eight pumpkin pies. This is intimately related to the fact that I have slightly less than a month before the start of exams. Hooray for stress baking! At least my roommates are reaping the benefits.
Baking – as well as crochet, which I've also been doing a decent amount of – is really good for my mental health. Law school is largely intangible: You spend your time studying, and what you have to show for it is...an interior sense that you understand an abstract concept better. Or you work on a paper, and then you've produced...some words on a computer screen. But you spend time baking, and at the end of it you have a pie! It's right there, and you made it!
I usually make my own crust when I bake pies, but I've been taking the lazy student route and using store-bought frozen crusts. The filling is just your standard pumpkin pie recipe:
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Baking – as well as crochet, which I've also been doing a decent amount of – is really good for my mental health. Law school is largely intangible: You spend your time studying, and what you have to show for it is...an interior sense that you understand an abstract concept better. Or you work on a paper, and then you've produced...some words on a computer screen. But you spend time baking, and at the end of it you have a pie! It's right there, and you made it!
I usually make my own crust when I bake pies, but I've been taking the lazy student route and using store-bought frozen crusts. The filling is just your standard pumpkin pie recipe:
( Read more... )
