I got on here to see if going from freezer to oven with an unbaked pie would crack my pan, and came across all the comments. I tend to cook a lot of pies and even pot pies when the mood takes me (or when I need to get use specific ingredients before they go bad). A friend of mine's mother mentioned that she puts readymade pies in her freezer until she is ready for them. So I already have a pie in there and came across it yesterday and wondered about baking it. I did not get through all the post/comments, so I don't know if anyone already addressed this comment. Sullen in December of 2010 made a comment about a lot of the liquid left in the pan that she did not drain off and you replied that it would let the apple marinate and make sure to have a cooking sheet under it. The cooking sheet has always been a definite in anything I ever bake, because cleaning the oven is a pain. I keep an extra broiler pan (from my last oven that died) in the bottom of my oven in case there is anything that I want cooked from the bottom and it overflows. But that is not the comment I was going to make. :) I was going to say .. You probably want to keep the liquid as much as possible, because as you said, it is the sugar pulling the liquid out of the apples .. but what I noticed years ago is when I took out a lot of the liquid - the flavor of the apples went with it, so now I always try and keep as much of the liquid as I can, usually try and thicken it up so it does not overflow, but I keep the liquid now from all fruit cooking and freeze it and use it for other projects when I need a sweet liquid. - I also keep the juices from canned fruit and use it in recipes instead of adding water. (If it is heavy syrup I dilute it first). But even if you already have the flour and spices in the liquid - I use that in my hot apple cider each year that I make in my crock pot that makes my whole house smell like apple pie. :) --- who needs Plug In air freshners. :) Thanks so much for sharing Beth. I can just smell the pie now, wish I had a nice big piece! ~ MaryJane

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