Szarlotka II

I didn’t eat apple pie growing up—but I thought I did. After all, we made it in a pie plate. My mom kept me in the dark about this until I was in grade school. Then I learned the thing we called apple pie wasn’t apple pie at all. It was szarlotka. How she managed to pull the wool over my eyes in New England, the heart of apple country, I’ll never know. Either way, when I did finally try pie, it was a terrible disappointment compared to our szarlotka, which, unlike pie, is succulent and swee