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About five years ago, I brought an apple pie to Thanksgiving from some recipe I got made up while I was heading along-feh, who requires a recipe for apple pie?-and my aunt declared it the very best apple pie she got ever tasted. While this should have been the best news in the globe, in the years since, in my brain, at least, it has brought nothing but chaos because, without having written down my "little of this" and "little of this" approach, I’ve had a terrible period recreating it.
Fairly certain I had utilized only yellow delicious apples, as I acquired heard that they have the cheapest water content and therefore spare the pie sludginess, They were used by me again the following year only to have an overcooked and not tart enough pie. The next year, my New Boyfriend Alex and I made a slew of spectacular pies (so I could send someone to his family, too, oh, I was in deep) with a variety of apples, but these ended up undercooked slightly. The following year, unbearably short on time, I used one of those Pillsbury unroll-and-bake doughs (more on this later, or another time if it gets late), but found the internal contents never to become gushy and large enough. Yeah, gushy can be an acceptable word to describe pie, okay?
Last year, realizing I was flopping around, creating chaos and misunderstandings where neither you need to, I turned to good ol’ Cooks Illustrated, the pinnacle of dependability and sound methods in cooking food and baking. I used shortening in the crust, despite the fact that shortening makes me cringe; I used their suggested mixture of apples; I utilized lemon and lemon zest because they said I will, but I insisted upon keeping the lattice top because I think it’s simply the prettiest. In the final end, I still cringed from shortening (but admitted the crust was extremely flaky), didn’t just like the lemon and felt there was not nearly enough spice. I noticed that the pie held getting dried out because there was too much openness in the lid. At least this time I required notes.
This year, I chosen a woven pie lid tightly, requiring double the amount of dough nearly, skipped the lemon, doubled the spices and used Cooks Illustrated’s new-and-improved vodka pie dough.
Oh, I’m sorry, you wanted to know how it turned out? People, its just 10 a.m.! Even my children doesn’t eat that early. But I've high hopes. Good, moderate hopes. Okay, I’m just plain nervous. So while I am all fidgety, I have to make a confession:
I'm sorry to all who had been harmed in the making of this vodka pie dough. After making two pies with it now, I must admit: I just hate it. It’s as well sticky and challenging to work with. No matter how cold it was, it never firmed up enough (because, duh, vodka doesn’t freeze) and each dough had to be messily peeled from its plastic after being rolled out. Having said that, it does seem to be the flakiest dough that I've available in the history of Deb’s Apple Pie. Nonetheless it was a royal discomfort in the butt and I am not sure I’d recommend it again without that caveat.
Whew, I right now feel better. I hope this good karma can be leveraged in that lopsided pie on the counter. I believe five years is usually long enough to wait.
You are hoped by me all have a warm, relaxing and lopsided Thanksgiving charmingly.

Tenerife (/tɛnəˈriːf/; Spanish: ) is the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands. It is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 square kilometres (785 sq mi) and 898,680 inhabitants, 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands. Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia.

About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the most of any of the Canary Islands. It is one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain and the world. Tenerife hosts one of the world's largest carnivals and the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is working to be designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Served by two airports, Tenerife North Airport and Tenerife South Airport, Tenerife is the economic centre of the archipelago. The 1977 collision of two Boeing 747 passenger jets at Tenerife North Airport, resulting in 583 deaths, remains the deadliest aviation accident in world history.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of the island and the seat of the island council (cabildo insular). The city is capital of the autonomous community of Canary Islands (shared with Las Palmas), sharing governmental institutions such as Presidency and ministries. Between the 1833 territorial division of Spain and 1927, Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands. In 1927 the Crown ordered that the capital of the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present. Santa Cruz contains the modern Auditorio de Tenerife, the architectural symbol of the Canary Islands.

The island is home to the University of La Laguna; founded in 1792 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, it is the oldest university in the Canaries. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city is the second to have been founded on the island, and is the third of the archipelago. The city of La Laguna was capital of the Canary Islands before Santa Cruz replaced it in 1833.

Teide National Park, a World Heritage Site in the center of the island, has Teide, the highest elevation of Spain, the highest of the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the third-largest volcano in the world from its base. Also located on the island, Macizo de Anaga since 2015 has been designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It has the largest number of endemic species in Europe.
Toponymy

The island's indigenous people, the Guanches, referred to the island as Achinet or Chenet in their language (variant spellings are found in the literature). According to Pliny the Younger, Berber king Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira; he named the Canary Islands for the particularly ferocious dogs (canaria) on the island. Juba II and Ancient Romans referred to the island of Tenerife as Nivaria, derived from the Latin word nix (nsg.; gsg. nivis, npl. nives), meaning snow, referring to the snow-covered peak of the Teide volcano. Later maps dating to the 14th and 15th century, by mapmakers such as Bontier and Le Verrier, refer to the island as Isla del Infierno, literally meaning "Island of Hell," referring to the volcanic activity and eruptions of Mount Teide.

The Benahoaritas (natives of La Palma) are said to have named the island, deriving it from the words tene ("mountain") and ife ("white"). After colonisation, the Hispanisation of the name resulted in adding the letter "r" to unite both words, producing Tenerife.

The 18th-century historians Juan Núñez de la Peña and Tomás Arias Marín de Cubas, among others, state that the island was likely named by natives for the legendary Guanche king, Tinerfe, nicknamed "the Great." He ruled the entire island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castilla.

The formal demonym used to refer to the people of Tenerife is Tinerfeño/a; also used colloquially is the term chicharrero/a. In modern society, the latter term is generally applied only to inhabitants of the capital, Santa Cruz. The term "chicharrero" was once a derogatory term used by the people of La Laguna when it was the capital, to refer to the poorer inhabitants and fishermen of Santa Cruz. The fishermen typically caught mackerel and other residents ate potatoes, assumed to be of low quality by the elite of La Laguna. As Santa Cruz grew in commerce and status, it replaced La Laguna as capital of Tenerife in 1833 during the reign of Fernando VII. Then the inhabitants of Santa Cruz used the former insult to identify as residents of the new capital, at La Laguna's expense.
About one hundred years before the conquest by king Juba II, the title of mencey was given to the monarch or king of the Guanches of Tenerife, who governed a menceyato or kingdom. This role was later referred to as a "captainship" by the conquerors. Tinerfe el Grande, son of the mencey Sunta, governed the island from Adeje in the south. However, upon his death, his nine children rebelled and argued bitterly about how to divide the island.

Two independent achimenceyatos were created on the island, and the island was divided into nine menceyatos. The menceyes within them formed what would be similar to municipalities today. The menceyatos and their menceyes (ordered by the names of descendants of Tinerfe who ruled them) were the following:
Territorial map of Tenerife before the conquest

The achimenceyato of Punta del Hidalgo was governed by Aguahuco, a "poor noble" who was an illegitimate son of Tinerfe and Zebenzui.
Tenerife was the last island of Canaries to be conquered and the one that took the longest time to submit to the Castilian troops. Although the traditional dates of conquest of Tenerife are established between 1494 (landing of Alonso Fernández de Lugo) and 1496 (conquest of the island), it must be taken into account that the attempts to annex the island of Tenerife to the Crown of Castile date back at least to 1464. For this reason, from the first attempt to conquer the island in 1464, until it is finally conquered in 1496, 32 years pass.

In 1464, Diego Garcia de Herrera, Lord of the Canary Islands, took symbolic possession of the island in the Barranco del Bufadero (Ravine of the Bufadero), signing a peace treaty with the Guanche chiefs (menceyes) which allowed the mencey Anaga to build a fortified tower on Guanche land, where the Guanches and the Spanish held periodic treaty talks until the Guanches demolished it around 1472. Website URL: