Modern Pie-making Bees

It’s not too unusual for two or more farm women to spend a day together in one of their kitchens making pies to freeze when a fruit is plentiful. They socialize while they work—a new kind of get-together, replacing the quilting bee. (Some homemakers prefer to fix and freeze pie fillings instead of the finished pie. This Cookbook gives the directions.)

Cars become pie wagons as visiting neighbors take their share of the pies home to their freezers. Convenient pie carriers, plastic and metal, simplify toting one or two pies to community suppers, bake sales and other places. Compare the ease of this system with the Southern custom of horse-and-buggy days, when women stacked transparent pies (a form of chess pie) and fastened them together by spreading on a cooked frosting so they could be carried safely in a basket to all-day picnics once so popular.