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Prelude I One of my favorite things to do as a kid was snitch sweet stuff ("Duh!" says Rob's dentist this week while replacing the second 20-year-old filling in 12 months). Sure,I know, we all liked to snitch sweet stuff, but I tried everything. Sugar (bland). Packed brown sugar (I was at least part of the reason the brown sugar was always rock hard). Honey. Molasses. Powered sugar (be wary or... cough, gag, choke, as you breath in the fine powder). Powered Quick (a little gritty - see powered sugar). Prelude II We've gone apple picking each year for the last five. Last year, we came back with a whole bunch - and I told Melinda we were going to make an apple pie. I got some good video of Melinda snitching apples, sugar, dough, and flour (takes after her old man). I conveniently stopped recording when I needed to yell: "Keep your dirty fingers out of the flour bag!" After 45 minutes of peeling apples, and 20 minutes of rolling crust (whoops, forgo