Rural Missouri - October 2013 - (Page 18)
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Pie Safe
Bakery & Cafe
Where old-time favorites evoke memories
own pie filling. Other pie flavors
include rhubarb, coconut custard,
coconut cream or pecan.
In the cookie jars at the Pie Safe,
haron Penrod always
you’ll find what Sharon likes to call
dreaded the end of the
“grandma cookies,” those old-fashfarmers market season. As
ioned recipes that recall simpler times.
a vendor at the markets in
Local favorites include the quintessenCape Girardeau and Jackson, she’d
tial grandma cookie — chocolate chip
spend most of her spring, summer
— along with coconut macaroons,
and fall making the weekly trek to
oatmeal raisin, molasses and snickersell her wares — homemade pies,
doodle. The pecan pie squares, made
cookies, jams and jellies — to a
with local honey, pecans
loyal clientele.
and lots of butter, are a
As any good salesmust-try.
person would, she’d
While the cookies
learn her customers’
names and what they To watch a video featuring may make you feel like
the Pie Safe Bakery & Cafe, you’re at Grandma’s, a
liked to eat. But it
click this button inside our word of caution: “You
was more than that.
photo by Kile Brewer
digital edition, online at
put your hand in the
She also took time
www.ruralmissouri.coop.
cookie jar, you buy
to learn about their
Those who loved the homemade pies and cookies Sharon Penrod sold at farmers
the whole jar,” laughs
families, their chilmarkets can now enjoy them year-round at the Pie Safe Bakery and Cafe.
Sharon. “I want you to enjoy a cookie,
dren and what was happening in
and covered with Sharon’s homebut please let me get it out for you.”
their lives. Over the course of the
primary focus, you also can get a
made preserves.
Baked goods aren’t just for dessert,
season, they became more than
home-cooked meal. Sharon admits
Quiche is available at both
however; they’re also for breakfast.
customers — they became friends.
she never imagined serving as many
breakfast and lunch, and Sharon
Here, you’ll find cinnamon and sweet
When winter approached and
meals as she does. “I thought the
offers several options. Lunch
rolls, muffins and scones and, of
Sharon packed up her market tent
tables would just be some place where
choices will remind many of
course, coffee cake. Peach, cherry and
for the last time, a void would
somebody could sit and have a piece
what they would have found on
apple are likely flavors, but the local
open. “It was kind of a letdown,
of pie and a cup of coffee.”
farmhouse tables a generation ago.
preference is peanut butter. Sharon
like ‘Now what do I do?’” she
At breakfast, you’ll find all the
Order a slice of quiche, a cup of
describes it as “peanut butter fudge on
says. “I knew I had customers who
usual suspects — bacon, eggs, pansoup packed with veggies straight
top of sweet dough.”
wished they could have my baked
cakes, biscuits and gravy. Enjoy a slice
from the garden or perhaps an egg
While the bakery is the Pie Safe’s
goods year-round. I wanted to be
of toast made from homemade bread
salad, tuna salad or chicken salad
able to continue to bake.”
sandwich on homemade bread.
So in 2012, Sharon abandoned
Sharon also offers what she
her nomadic ways, and she and
Pie Safe Bakery & Cafe
calls the “Sampler Platter,” which
her husband, Monte, opened the
gives you a taste of many different
Pie Safe Bakery and Cafe in what
Specialties: Homemade pies, cakes,
items, including homemade sides
was once the Bank of Pocahoncookies and pastries, including peanut
such as potato salad, bread and
tas. The cozy eatery, which seats
butter coffee cake. Also quiche, soups, salbutter pickles or pickled beets.
just 14, offers an array of madeads and sandwiches. Jam and jelly for sale.
The Penrods recently extended
from-scratch pies, cakes, cookies
Pocahontas •
the Pie Safe’s hours on Friday to 7
and pastries, along with a limited
:
Price: Breakfast items from $3 to $6; lunch
p.m. to allow locals the opportumenu of soups, salads and sand4
from $4 to $7; desserts from $2.50 to $4. Whole pies and
nity to stop off after work and pick
wiches made from local products.
cakes available from $14 to $25; quiches from $12 to $16. Cash,
up a dish for their evening meal
The bakery case is front and
or breakfast the next day. Sharon
center at the Pie Safe, as it should
checks, Visa and Mastercard accepted.
says that if you call ahead, which
be. Sharon fills it with all sorts of
she requests for groups of four
goodies. Pies are her foremost speDetails: Open Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6 a.m. to 2
or more, she’ll make something
cialty, and her pie crust — which
p.m.; and Friday, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday through Tuesspecial just for you.
she learned to make years ago
day. Seats 14; for groups of four or more, please call ahead.
“I figured out from the very
from a group of ladies at church —
beginning, you’re not selling
is flaky and tender, making it the
Directions: Located at 146 Main St. in Pocahontas, about 2.5
baked goods. You’re selling a memperfect complement to any filling.
miles east of Interstate 55 Exit 111.
ory,” she says. “You’re trying to
Depending on what’s in season,
make something to evoke a memoyou might find peach, apple,
Contact: 573-833-6743
ry. The Pie Safe is a place where
cherry, wild blackberry or even
people can make a memory.”
gooseberry. Sharon also cans her
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