National Cherry Pie Day 2023

I have been known to devour various pies over the years. I am partial to REAL egg custard but also enjoy a wide variety of fruit pies ... like the cherry pie.

I enjoy everything from the crust to the filling and of course the whipped cream if it is present. I come from a line of those who could and did bake mouth watering pastries over the years.

Today is National Cherry Pie Day. It falls on February 20. There are stories which link it to George Washington and the biographer's myth of his cutting down his father’s cherry tree.

I am not alone in my enjoyment of the cherry pie. It is a popular pie filling in our nation and is traditionally made with tart cherries instead of sweet cherries.

The variety of cherry doesn't matter so much to me as much as the character of the filling — which I regard closely ... and the quality of ice cream or whipped cream which accompanies it.

Cherry pies are the stuff of folklore as evidenced by the song Billy Boy — which was a memory from my childhood that I hummed many times back then and has many lyrics. One of those lyrics feature the cherry pie:
 

Billy Boy

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Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
Can she bake a cherry pie, Charming Billy?
She can bake a cherry pie, quick as a cat can wink her eye
But she's a young thing and cannot leave her mother

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Lyricists: LUTHER DIXON, JACK DOUGLAS
Lyrics © MUSIC SERVICES, INC., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC