Key Lime Pie Tragedy

Posted on June 20, 2006 by appsscraps

This is what happens when you don’t thoroughly read a recipe …..

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Key Lime Pie Disaster!


I thought it’d be nice to prepare a key lime pie for my folks arrival tomorrow as I had bought fresh key lime juice while in California. So I mix the milk, eggs and juice and pour them into the graham cracker pie shell. And into the oven it goes.

It’s busy baking away and is supposed to go 15 minutes at 350°.  Fine.  But after the 15 minutes tick away the blessed pie is still real runny … damn thing hasn’t set. Okay, fine, I’ll bake it a further 15 minutes … cause I’m thinking, it must be my oven, really slow.

tick tick tick

Done. But horror! … it’s still all a jiggly and runny. So I consult G, a far better chef than I. G immediately asks to see the recipe.

“Hmmmm, let me see the milk can,” he asks.

I retrieve the can from the trash.

“Condensed milk Brent! … you’ve used evaporated milk!” (laughs)

“Oh,” say I.

Lesson learned.

Damn.

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13 Responses to Key Lime Pie Tragedy

  1. willariah's avatar willariah says:
    June 24, 2006 at 14:22

    omg. u’re not alone! everyone confuses condensed with evaporated! .. no worries. i’m sure it still tasted nice.. mix it with pudding or yogurt or something.. i’m sure it’d be tasty.

  2. meoni's avatar meoni says:
    June 22, 2006 at 10:42

    that’s bad. bake another one quickly! =P

  3. Anonymous's avatar Anonymous says:
    June 21, 2006 at 22:10

    Yikes…better luck next time!

  4. Anonymous's avatar Anonymous says:
    June 21, 2006 at 15:48

    well, hope there’s time to make another one. :)

  5. kunhuo42's avatar kunhuo42 says:
    June 21, 2006 at 14:40

    hahaha   ah well, everyone makes mistakes.  i don’t know if i would eat that though, it’s got to be prettty sour if you used evaporated instead of condensed milk.

  6. jadedmonkeyTO's avatar jadedmonkeyTO says:
    June 21, 2006 at 13:25

    Key Lime soup? Key lime sauce?? hahaha… oh well … the next one will be fab!

  7. YNOTswim's avatar YNOTswim says:
    June 21, 2006 at 04:57

    I hardly cook anything using a recipe, hence, almost never got it wrong. :)

  8. lawrenceonline's avatar lawrenceonline says:
    June 21, 2006 at 03:37

    it looks pretty good to me. and if it doesn’t to you, just smoke or take a few shots and then you’ll be feelin hungry =P

  9. bennykan's avatar bennykan says:
    June 21, 2006 at 02:57

    Hey it still looks okay so probably I might eat it without knowing it is actually a disaster. LOL

  10. enRoute's avatar enRoute says:
    June 20, 2006 at 23:19

    Hahaha, I await your perfect one next time.ryc: don’t think I’ll go out this weekend…need to prepare for my test next week. =)

  11. Fatcat723's avatar Fatcat723 says:
    June 20, 2006 at 22:40

    When all else fails read the labels. Hope that the rest went well.

  12. m3galomaniac's avatar m3galomaniac says:
    June 20, 2006 at 21:04

    haha, yea, you can get a key lime creme brule. maybe you should bake naked too..

  13. Anonymous's avatar Anonymous says:
    June 20, 2006 at 20:56

    Hmmm… sort of like a key lime creme brule?

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