I liked the taste of the apples though! They were cumbersome to cut with and scoop up with a fork. The apples you pick really make or break your pie. I now know this. The very first pie I made wasn’t good at all. This may have been right before college, some time in high school. The granny smith apples I bought in the store was super tart. The pie lacked a lot of sugary flavors despite me following the recipe…. funny enough I met someone in a church group who googled the exact same recipe, but when I ate her version, it was delicious! To this day, I haven’t quite figured out why. But it’s probably the ingredients and the apples.