A friend of ours mentioned a pie shop in Brooklyn called Four and Twenty Blackbirds, she talked about the Salted Caramel Apple pie and it sounded delicious. Since I didn’t have a trip scheduled to NYC, I purchased the cookbook and Sophon made a couple of recipes. We were not going to go to NYC without a visit to the Pie Shop.
We took the “F” train to Brooklyn and got off on fourth and ninth. The shop was a few blocks away. As we walked I noticed a couple of churches and began to wonder, was this Grandfather’s church? My mother was born in Brooklyn and my Grandfather was a Methodist minister who had a perish in Brooklyn. My mother talked fondly about her father and talked about how her father would take her into the city to catch a matinée at Radio City Music Hall and to the Empire State building.
Oddly enough, my mother rarely spoke about Brooklyn or the area in Brooklyn that she lived or where my Grandfather’s perish was. As I walked down a street that she used to walk down or was it another area of Brooklyn? I knew that I would be spending some time trying to research my questions but for now, it was all about finding the pie shop.
We found the pie shop and ordered Salted Caramel Apple, Lemon Chess and Coffee Custard. It was definitely worth a visit.
We made it back to the city just in time to pick up our luggage and head to the airport!
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