Blackberry Pie Making with Va

When you learn how to make pies from the master.

My mom bakes every day- every day, she makes cookies, pie, cream puffs, or something in that sweet order and from scratch.

And even though she can make those sweet things with her eyes closed and turned around backward

she still followed the recipe to the “t.”

My mom doesn’t take shortcuts or deviate from the recipe; her 86-year-old hands move gracefully.

 

 

My mother made a blackberry pie from blackberries that she picked last summer.

My mom freezes her measured blackberries in four-cup bags ready to use.

Gabriel used the leftover pie dough to make his little pie-

not quite the same, but we didn’t tell him that.

 

 

Comments

[Kelley]

à la Proust... the smell and taste of love he will never forget.

[Lil]

This is precious.

[RebeccaNYC]

I love your mom. What a treasure she is.

[RebeccaNYC]

Does Gabriel call both of you "Va"? When my nieces and nephews were young, my dad was "Pop-Pop" When they had children of their own, and their dad (my brother in-law) was "Pop-Pop", their children spontaneously started calling their great-grandfather "Pop-Pop-Pop". I always loved that!

[Jeanne]

Pat-A-Cake Pat-A-Cake
The Countdown Kids, The Countdown Singers
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it and mark it with "B"
Put it in the oven for baby and me
For baby and me
For baby and me
And there will be plenty for baby and me
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it and mark it with "B"
Put it in the oven for baby and me
For baby and me
For baby and me
And there will be plenty for baby and me

How precious the times shared and the photographs of love

[Melly]

Precious.

[Anna]

Ohhhhhh, those darling little dimpled fingers and hands, busily working with such focus and concentration. What joy! What forever memories are being made with your beautiful Mom!!!

[jackie]

Get some photos with the 4 generations!

[Fat Rabbit]

Baking with great grandmother - delicious memories in the making.❤️

[Kathy]

He’s into it! Sweet memories in the making…literally and otherwise! 💕

[Texasfrancophile]

Priceless priceless priceless
memories for both forever😍

[Diane Belforte Lewis]

omgosh that is unbelievably sweet.

[Cathleen]

Yummy - precious - sweet!

[Barbara Blizzard]

Frank started teaching our granddaughter Zoë to measure by weight when she was little - I have a wonderful photo of her standing on a ladder wearing one of my aprons with a big smile - she looked at me and said "I cooking, Grandma". That has been our special phrase since then. She know bakes beautiful galettes for family gatherings.

[Linda Loose]

So, so wonderful to have these moments. I know you cherish them. Gabriel looks totally absorbed in his work.

[Kathie]

Lovely pictures and great memories!

[Teddee Grace]

I'm so glad they are having this time together. He will remember.

[Marilyn]

I love, love that Gabriel is getting this experience with Va.
I have made pie with my grandson once, but need to do it more often. The experience is a treasure. It is amazing your mother bakes every day. I eat too much when I bake, so try to do it only once a week.