The Nazarene church in Eldon makes and sells pies to generate funds for Missions projects. The set up is quite efficient and requires 40-50 volunteers per session. In the garage where the church buses and tractor are normally housed, are the tables for peeling the apples. The gentleman in white hat takes the peels and cores and feeds his hogs. He is turning a "peeler" and the gentleman across is cutting into pie sized pieces and checking for bad spots.
My "partner" is in the black hat. The peeler I borrow from Jay is just visible in the bottom right corner. Behind to left are empty boxes which hold 1 and 1/9 bushel of apples or 80-90 apples.
The lady in the kitchen with the maroon apron is the "pie chef". She has been running the operation for several years. She also volunteers at Eldon Food Pantry Thrift Store on Wednesdays so I sometimes work with her there, too.
From 1-5 a crew comes in and makes the crust "balls" on the round platter in foreground. These are then rolled into the bottom crust and placed in the aluminum pie pans by several "holy rollers" including Louise in the yellow blouse on left side of table. The whole assembly operation is set up in their activities center which also has basket ball court, etc.
The bottom crusts go to the filling area where 4 cups of apple slices are added then topped with butter, sugar, cinnamon & ??.
The filled pies are staged awaiting top crust. The top crust crew was too small this evening, as the table is normally not this full.
The dough balls are rolled into upper crusts and placed on the filled pies. I think they crimp and vent the pies here, too.
They then package and place into freezer or into boxes for immediate dispersal to advance sales customers who can bake them or freeze them. The gentleman in front is taping the directions for baking onto the plastic covers (they use #1 PETE containers which are recyclable!) In a 2 hour shift (6-8pm) they complete about 400 pies. Target total is over 3500 pies(oopss make that 5000-5500 pies)!! Pies sell for $7 each or 6 for $35. They are REALLY GOOD!!
Sara and Wem, I thought of you making 400 lunches for a fund raiser at MTC.
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