Pies Raise Funds for Student Scholarships
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JACKS CREEK, Tenn. – Forget National Donut Day, a group of Chester County ladies is making fried pies instead for those West Tennesseans with a sweet tooth. They are getting ready for a big bake sale, which will support the community. “It’s just fun to get together with your friends,” Kay Robison said. It only took a group of women with the Jacks Creek Community Club one week to make 2,000 fried pies. It is an annual fundraiser to give back to the community. “So we can have money for a scholarship for a high school senior, for helping people in the community who have been burned out, or if they’re in financial need,” Robison said. Shelley Pusser got the scholarship two years ago. Now she is helping others get help with college too. “I love these women, and so they’re just great to me, and the scholarship was a very good thing,” Pusser said. Once they finish making the pies, they put them in the freezer for several months. Then they sell them at the Chester County Barbeque Festival in the fall. “We sell every one of them every year,” Robison said. These ladies said the hardest part is making the filling. They use apples and peaches from a member’s orchard, and another member’s special recipe for the chocolate pies. “You have to pot the peaches and apples, you have to mix up the chocolate,” Pusser said. “The making is very simple, but the preparation for the pies is what’s the tough work.” And though they enjoy making the pies, they said it is even more rewarding when they finish. The Jacks Creek Community Club will host a potluck dinner for this year’s scholarship winners and their families next week.
