2022 Fall Newsletter

Cherry Pie

1 ½ cups cherries, drained (save the juice) 1 teaspoon butter Mix sugar, flour and salt, add cherry juice gradually, stirring until smooth Add almond flavoring, pour mixture over drained cherries mix to coat

Cherries evenly, pour into pastry lined pan, dot top with butter. Roll remain ing Pastry place on pie, flute edges to gether, put slit in top crust Bake 35 to 40 minutes. (bake at 400 for 15 minutes reduce heat to 350 for 30 minutes)

Pastry for 9-inch pie 1 ½ cups sugar 3 Tablespoon flour 1/8 teaspoon salt

½ cup juice from can cherries ¼ teaspoon almond flavoring

It’s more than pie in the sky

ders, or pies we were out of, put them in the cooler so when Jackie came in that next morning, she’d put them in the oven bake them so she would have fresh pies to start her day and Customers would come in to pick up their pies. Willa and I were still working, so we’d come down every evening at 5pm and bake sometimes until 12 mid night depending on orders and if it was an upcoming Holiday. Jackie loved her days at the Bakery we all did, but she got a kick out of her customers that came into the Bakery, she loved making homemade rolls, cinnamon rolls, and Father Pooh bread. Father Pool, from the Catholic Church came into the Bakery she said one day and gave her his bread recipe, and she made sure there were several loafs of Father Pool bread on the shelves for sale. We also served Soup, chicken salad and bar beque brisket sandwich and slice of pie for lunch. We made every pie out from double crust, to single crust, to cheese cake, to Key Lime pie, pecan, walnut, strawberry, if you want ed it, we baked it and had it ready for you. I don’t think there is a pie out there we didn’t make. We weren’t saying that our pies were the best, we just made it easy for you to come in or order your favorite pie or come pick up your ready-made fresh baked pie and take it home to your family. Our bakery did very well here in Paola, the Holidays were the busiest times of the year. Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July and Sunday dinners. I posted this picture on my Face book page and I had several comments from friends that said they did not know this. Well we were a very kept secret I guess, we had several ladies that were our regular customers that came in asked us to not tell their husbands or family that they brought our pies, because they wanted them to think that they made the pies instead. It makes smile every time I look at this picture. Because we did keep their secret and it’s still safe with me. That was one of my best memories in Paola. Our Sister Jack ie got sick and couldn’t run the store and do what she loved to do. Willa retired from her job and her and Donald decide to travel. I wasn’t old enough to retire and was still working helping care of my family and I loved my day job so with bit tersweet sad feeling we, had to close Greenway Pie Company.

This picture brings a big smile to my face. My sisters Jackie Greene, Willa Wilhoite, Mary Jackson and myself, decided that we wanted to open a bakery, and bake pies and use Momma pie recipes. So we started off doing bake sales, set up at every event that was happening on the Square up town, we set up our table at the chili bake offs, car shows, roots festival, fair time every event that was on the square just to see if there was a market out there for homemade baked pies, and come to find out there was, the events would start around 9am in the morning and by noon, we were all sold out and packing up to go home. So, we did bake sales every Saturday at Walmart for almost a year, we saved all the money we made from all our sales and decide to open a bakery. We started out at the little building south of town on silver street on the left side right before you crossed the vi-doc. We were there almost a year when the store front up town at 124 West Wea Street became available and we were asked if we wanted to rent it. That was the start of Greenway Bakery Pies made Our Way. Our Sister Mary Jackson was our Bookkeeper, she said she wasn’t’ baking nothing, because didn’t want people thinking she messed up their pie. Tibby Clements did our taxes, our Jackie Greene ran the store during the day, Willa and I would come down every evening at 5pm and make up the pies or Jacqueline Greene, Willa Wilhoit and Aggie Dillard

Best six years

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