‘Tis the season for pies! Bells of the Sound pie-a-thon

(Photos by Katie Meyer for WSB)
Pies tend to proliferate during the holiday season … and a pile of pies is emerging today in West Seattle thanks to the Bells of the Sound musical group, following its pie-a-thon this morning at Tibbetts United Methodist Church (WSB sponsor).

The numbers are impressive: Wendy Hughes-Jelen tells us the group expects to make about 550 apple pies by the time this morning’s operation is over, using more than 1600 pounds of donated Jonagold apples from Oregon!

More than a third of the apple pies will be donated to Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. The others have already been pre-sold to raise money for Bells of the Sound, a nonprofit handbell choir that’s going to be especially busy making music this holiday season – in fact, their holiday concert is just a few weeks away at Tibbetts, Friday, December 2nd (full details here).

coffee November 12, 2011 (12:40 pm)

Oh man I wish I would have known in advance I would have loved to buy one of those!

Wendy November 12, 2011 (10:41 pm)

Just a clarification – the pies are made but not baked. People can bake them at home later. They freeze really well also. So I bought two, they went straight into the freezer and will be brought out for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am just a volunteer and major fan of Bells of the Sound and Tibbetts provides their rehearsal space and bell storage. They are a very high level group – the group I play in at Tibbetts is “JV” to their “Varsity” level of expertise.
Perhaps next year we will have more volunteers and be able to offer pies to the greater West Seattle community. But as it is, it takes several hours of dough making and then the group was able to produce 100 pies per hour consistently. I wouldn’t want it to be a 2 or 3 day project! My back was killing me as it was and some people put in many more hours than I.