I’ve been doing more baking in the past year, especially of things like shoo fly pies and other pies and cakes, and I’ve been keeping them in a plastic cake holder that I got who-knows-when.

I decided that I needed something better than plastic, so I bought an acrylic cake stand. It’s actually multifunctional and can be a serving platter, or a salad bowl, or can even be used to serve crudités (whatever they are; I’m a simple Pennsylvanian and I surely don’t know what crudités are).

Friday morning the temperature was 65° F. (18.3° C.), and according to the forecast it might be the last day when the mercury gets that low for some time, so I took advantage to turn on the oven and bake a shoo fly pie.

Alas, I baked it in a glass pie plate. And I hadn’t bothered to measure the new cake stand’s circumference or diameter, only its height. And it turned out it wasn’t wide enough to accommodate the pie plate. I should have baked the pie in a disposable aluminum plate.