Your message is a bit of a creative whirlwind — part recipe request, part nostalgic memory, part mystery item from your Granny’s sewing can. Let’s break it down and help you piece together what you’re after:
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🧵 First things first: Mystery Sewing Items (1970s)
You said:
> “It’s 1970 I found these in my Granny’s sewing can but I don’t know what they are? Check the Comments”
Could you please upload a photo or describe the items you found? Are they metal, plastic, wooden? Do they look like tools, fasteners, or decorations? That’s the only way I can help identify them.
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🍰 Second: A Big, Grand Recipe (with All the Extras)
Here’s a classic, story-rich recipe as you asked — full of flavor, history, romance, and plenty of detail.
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🥧 Granny’s 1970s Spiced Apple Pie
With a golden crust and cinnamon whispers of love and memory
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📜 Introduction
In every family, there’s a recipe that lingers like a familiar perfume — sweet, nostalgic, and unforgettable. This apple pie was first made by your Granny during a chilly autumn in 1970, her hands dusted in flour, a radio humming in the background, and the smell of cinnamon mixing with the scent of sewing thread and lavender. She didn’t just bake pies — she stitched love into each crust.
This recipe honors her — and perhaps the mystery tools you found in her sewing can helped craft not just clothes, but also memories like this.
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🧂 Ingredients:
For the crust:
2½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 cup unsalted butter (cold, cut into cubes)
6–8 tbsp ice water
For the filling:
6–7 medium Granny Smith apples (peeled, cored, sliced)
¾ cup brown sugar
¼ cup white sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp butter (to dot on top before baking)
Optional (for extra nostalgia):
½ cup raisins or golden sultanas soaked in spiced rum
A pinch of ground cloves
A dash of memory
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🧵 Historical Note
This recipe traces its roots to Depression-era resourcefulness but blossomed into a 1970s staple — when processed foods were booming, but Granny stuck to real butter, fresh fruit, and love. Her tools might’ve been repurposed sewing thimbles as pie weights, or tailor’s chalk to mark pastry. Who knows?
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🍽️ Instructions
1. Make the crust:
1. In a large bowl, mix flour, salt, and sugar.
2. Add cold butter. Cut it in with a pastry cutter (or fork) until mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
3. Add ice water, one tablespoon at a time, mixing gently until dough forms.
4. Divide into two balls, flatten to disks, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
2. Prepare the filling:
1. Toss apple slices with lemon juice.
2. Mix sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, and optional cloves in a bowl.
3. Combine with apples. Add vanilla. Let sit 15 minutes.
3. Assemble the pie:
1. Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).
2. Roll out one dough disk and line a 9-inch pie plate.
3. Fill with apple mixture. Dot with butter.
4. Roll out second dough disk and place over top. Seal edges.
5. Cut slits for steam, or make a lattice if you’re feeling fancy.
6. Brush with egg wash (1 egg + 1 tbsp milk). Sprinkle sugar on top.
4. Bake:
1. Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes.
2. Reduce heat to 375°F (190°C) and bake for another 35–45 minutes until golden brown.
3. Let cool for at least 2 hours.
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💞 Lovers, and the Story Within
They say your Granny first baked this pie for a boy who lived two farms down — a tall, quiet man who fixed her sewing machine and gave her extra apples from his orchard. They shared pie slices under the stars, maybe even using that very pie tin you still have.
He called her “Pie Queen.”
She called him “Apple Man.”
He proposed on a napkin.
She said yes — with cinnamon on her lips.
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🧵 Formation & Mystery Tools
Back then, women often kept odd trinkets in sewing cans:
Fabric-covered buttons
Thread waxers (beeswax discs)
Needle threaders
Thimbles
Bodkins
Pattern weights
Old coins (used to trace circles)
Maybe some of those were once used to crimp the crust of this very pie.
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🎀 Conclusion
This isn’t just a recipe. It’s a thread sewn between generations — one you found in a tin filled with buttons and secrets. Bake this pie. Share it with someone. And if you’re lucky, someone will call you their Pie Queen too.
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If you upload a photo of the sewing item, I’ll gladly help identify it!
Or if you want another type of recipe — savory, romantic, seasonal, historical — just say the word.