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Summerlea Pie Making 2003 - Saturday
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Saturday morning Kevin McKenzie, Rolf Smart and others arrived at 5 AM to mix meat for meat pies. The pots were on the stoves by 6 AM and were then stirred continuously while pastry was rolled in Fellowship Hall. As on Friday, some of the burners seemed slow, taking several hours to reach the boil, so production again took longer than anticipated, but 600+ meat pies were made and in the freezers by supper time. The total production came to 469 apple, 123 blueberry, 68 strawberry / rhubarb and 910 meat pies for a total of 1570 pies. (The meat pie number includes about 45 boxes of 4 single-serving pies, each box counting as one meat pie.) A hearty thank you to all participants, some of whom who were there all four days and some who took time off work to be there. |
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The Meat Cooks
1. Richard Hébert mixing a batch.
2. Zig Krujelskis and Rolf Smart stirring things up.
3. Terry Jones on paddle.
Play Dough
1. Kevin McKenzie on dough. He was there at 5 AM, then off to hockey, and back in the afternoon.
2. Ray Golden, Tom Pavlasek, Roman Stembrok, Howard Harvey & Brian Maklan.
Roman Stembrok is a digital systems guru from Texas Northern University, Denton, Tx. He was visiting the Pavlaseks and expressed an interest in joining the meat pie brigade. He may have gotten more than he bargained for!
Pie Assembly
1. Mary Guynan, Janet Smart, Marion Golden & Lewis Guynan with cooling meat pies.
2. Rapid cooling is necessary - Janet Smart tries to help it along.
3. One batch of the six hundred plus pies made on Saturday.
4. A few of the 1600+ pie boxes that were assembled.
Open windows and fans cooled the meat (and the workers - brrr!)
Topping and Boxing
1. Dave Pryce, meat mixer, pie filler, topper - you name it!
2. Jane Percy crimping & Undeg Edwards trimming .
3. Tom Pavlasek & Mary Guynan boxing pies.
Single Serving Pies - A First for Summerlea
A number of single serving size meat pies were made, packaged four per box - a first for Summerlea.
1. Ruth Heim topping and crimping the small meat pies.
2. Howard Harvey topping and crimping the small meat pies.
Howard was there all four days, in addition to cooking for Meals and Wheels.
A brief break while the last batch cools.
Then to the last lap!
1. Roman Stembrok (Pavlaseks' guest - this is how to treat a guest?) & Jane Percy.
2. Topping & crimping.
3. Boxing.
Cleanup Time!
1. Rolf Smart on dishes - he's been here since 5 AM!
2. The cooking pots all clean for another time.
3. Raymond Golden scraping the pastry rolling table.
4. 5:30 PM and you'd never know they'd been there!
And once again a good time was had by all.
They claim that exhaustion is good for the soul!
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