Day 3875: XinXin and Sugar Cream Pie.

Ukraine art by Pawel Kuczynski

Want music?

Click here: Peter Frampton, Baby I Love

then click back on this blog tab or here to listen as you browse, or not?

 

 

 

2GN2S ...

Mexico's 'forgotten panda.' 

Xin Xin, lounges in her habitat at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City

She's the last of her kind. Her name is Xin Xin, and she's one of only three pandas in the world not owned by China. But these may be the final day's of Mexico's half-century panda love affair.

 Xin Xin is the granddaughter of two pandas given to Mexico as a gift in 1975. Today, she's the only panda in Latin America and among the last in the world that doesn't belong to China. The lineage of Mexican pandas ends with Xin Xin, who never reproduced.

 

Do You Know Wicks Sugar Cream Pies?

Mrs Wick's Pies have been producing top quality pies and pie shells for over 50 years and are famous for their Sugar Cream Pie. A staple in Indiana, you can be sure when bringing a dessert to an event, there is always several sugar cream pies. It’s similar in taste to that of a crème brûlée; lightly sweet, smooth like a custard, and sure to be a family favorite.

 

An original farmhouse recipe, this pie contains only the finest ingredients including cream, sugar, and nutmeg. Wick built his business on Sugar Cream Pie over 70 years ago, and it remains a Hoosier favorite! It’s similar in taste to that of a crème brûlée; lightly sweet, smooth like a custard, and sure to be a family favorite.

 

Back in 1944, Duane "Wick’’ Wickersham opened a small cafe inside an Indiana factory to serve lunch to its employees.  Wick’s Restaurant is just north of the Wick’s commercial bakery at 100 Cherry Street, Winchester, Indiana. He relied on many of his grandmother’s recipes, including one for a classic Indiana specialty, Sugar Cream Pie. A full-service restaurant soon followed, within four years he was selling 300 of his pies every day, and Wick’s Pies was on its way to becoming one of Indiana’s most beloved pie makers. Wick’s pies are still made according to those same family recipes, and the Wickersham family still runs the company to this day.

              

That would be the end of it, but when WonderWoman was just 3, I got the hair-brained idea that it would be fun for us to both bake a sugar cream pie together. I had the Wicks recipe and all the ingredients, so before I could think it through, we started.

 

 I wanted to show you how young this pie maker was, two pigtails and a smile. It was my first pie too. Lil'WW was already dressed in her favorite navy sailor suit, repeat, navy! I don't know what I wore, but when Lil'WW's Dad came home we were both covered with flower. The pie was pretty good but getting there was messy.

 

They do ship pies now ...

 

 

 

 

A funny 1+minute video, Doris, here.

 

Just because ...

  

Jacana   (check the feet)

 

Smiles for Sunday ...

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

                             Thanks for coming by today ...