I read a Facebook meme today that asked if “your mom made you a cinnamon and sugar treat with leftover pie dough when you were a kid?” I thought “no, but my mom also didn’t make pie”. Then I remembered she did try to make Pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving one year. She bought a frozen crust, filled it with store bought pumpkin filling and baked it. It took a really long time to bake, and she was frustrated, but we didn’t know what the problem was. Later she couldn’t slice the pie either.
Finally we discovered the reason for all her woes. She never took out the paper at the bottom of the frozen crust.

Lucky for her, I married a pie man. She never had to make pie again.