She also baked for individuals in the community, for specials occasions or whenever someone was just feeling special and needed a pie all their own. For twenty three years she built a small business and huge reputation. SHe would rise at four in the morning to bake for her costumers, leave the pies on the cedar chest by the screen door for them to pick up later in the day. to the drugstore on Main
, to begin all over again, baking for the drugstore lunch counter. She retired in 1981, not realizing how much she was loved for her yummy creations. After numerous calls from people wanting pie, less than a year later my mother and her daughter, Betty "Boo" Clouse Graham resumed the pie baking. Thus, the pie baking continued another twenty four years. During that time my mother created several differant cakes and added two more pie flavors to the already list of many. Her Peanut Butter and Chocolate Peanut Butter Pies were her most famous, although many loved the Coconut Meringue which was a favorite of my grandmothers. Mother created a legacy of her own baking for individuals and resteraunts in town and even had a good size out of town customer base. Mom passed away in 2005. I spent all my life visiting in the kitchen while all this baking was going on whether at my grandmothers house or in my mothers kitchen. How could I not know these recipes by heart? Since mothers passing little by little I've been baking, mostly for friends or for the old timers that mother and grandmother had baked for. Just like before it has grown little by little and grown into something that I love. Not only do I love baking and making people happy with my creations but I love the thought of carrying on the legacy of two generations before me.
