Bennington Potters
Around the beginning of September I start getting anxious about the coming holidays. In my family, it gets quite busy. October is my birthday, our wedding anniversary and Halloween. November is my daughter's birthday and Thanksgiving. And then of course the mother of all holidays, Christmas!
Through all these holidays, I can't help but think about making pies.
Back in Maine I had bought a beautiful ceramic pie pan at a local shop. I made apple pies in September, and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. I love that ceramic pie plate. It made my pies look so much more festive. God knows I need it. Before I got my ceramic pie plate, I made hideous pies. I love that ceramic pie plate so much that I decided I would leave it at our Maine cabin, for fear of breaking it in the mail.
Now here we are in California, approaching fall and I have no pie pan. Sure I could buy a simple pyrex pan, but I'm spoiled by my beautiful ceramic pie pan. I just can't go back.
My sensitive husband understood my plight, and ordered me two of these exquisite Bennington Potters pie pans. These are part of the "Tavernware" collection, which is described as having "a tawny glaze on a mahogany clay body."
Ironic, that I left my ceramic pie plate out of fear of breaking it in the mail, and here comes my husband just ordering a couple of them online and getting them delivered by mail.
Whatever! No time to think about that now that I've got these beauties in my kitchen safe and sound.
I love them! The edges are delicately fluted, handmade and handglazed. They look so rustic and old, it'll make my pies look perfect for Thanksgiving dinner.
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