Wouldn't you love to pull a stunning freeze and bake fruit pie out of your oven in less than an hour, start to finish? Impossible, you say? Au contraire – your grandma could have done it. That is, if you had a grandma like mine, with a big chest freezer full of unbaked pies. My grandma was born in 1894, in northern Wisconsin, in a house without what we'd consider amenities critical to daily life: running water, electricity, and central heating, for instance.