Maxine had garnered a reputation of being the best cook of the Tigard Ward (of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) She was always available to bake a bunch of pies, cookies, candies, divinity, peppernuts or whatever was needed. Her abilities in the kitchen were simply unmatched!
The Elders Quorum never had any cooking reputation, though. Well, that might not be true.....they could probably cook hot dogs, but I'm just guessing on that. Anyway, they (without thinking it through) decided to hold an apple pie contest to see which Elder in the Ward could make the best apple pie. The event was a big deal, as the sisters were excluded while the men were going to be beating their proverbial chests as they demonstrated their masculine prowess in the kitchen.
I don't know who had the dumbfounded idea, but the brothers decided that all of those apple pies would really impress the sisters IF one was able to beat the best apple pie baker in the Ward.....Maxine Hansen! So, they extended an inivitation to Maxine to join in the competition to see who was really the master of the kitchen!
Well, as you can imagine, Maxine was not one to cower to the men's abilities to discern a measuring cup from a drinking mug. She went ahead and made an apple pie to submit to the competition. In fairness, the pies were all numbered so that the baker was unknown to the judges.
No surprise to the sisters, but the top pick of all the pies turned out to be Maxine's apple pie! The contest proved her prowess in the kitchen. However, she was not totally comfortable with being deceptive, so she decided to publicly confess how she made the pie that beat all the brothers' entries. In truth, her apple pie did NOT contain any apples at all.....hers was a soda cracker pie that beat all of the Elders Quorum pies!!!