With fall just around the corner, Plymouth Trinity United Methodist Church is once again gearing up for its annual Fall Wick's Pie sale, giving the community a chance to stock up on a beloved Hoosier tradition for the holiday season.
The pies come from Wick's Pies, a Winchester-based business whose roots stretch back to 1944, when Duane "Wick" Wickersham opened a small food canteen inside a local glass factory to keep workers from slipping off to nearby pubs at lunch. A year later, using his grandmother's 19th-century farm recipe for sugar cream pie, he opened the Rainbow Restaurant in downtown Winchester, delivering surplus pies to customers in a 1934 Buick sedan.
Demand soared to 300 pies a day by 1948, and in 1961 Wick moved production to a dedicated factory on Greenville Avenue, adopting a patented nitrogen-freezing method that allowed the pies to be shipped nationwide. After retiring from the plant in 1986, he opened a restaurant and pie shop named for his wife and co-baker, Ruby. In 2009, Indiana officially named the sugar cream pie the Hoosier Pie and designated Winchester the state pie capital.
Today, the family-run business produces more than 10,000 pies and 30,000 crust shells in a single shift — all from a grandmother's old farm recipe.
Trinity United Methodist Church is currently taking orders for frozen pies, which carry a shelf life of one year. Available flavors include Sugar Cream, Pecan, Peanut Butter, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Spice, German Chocolate, and Coconut Sugar Cream. Pies are $10 each and will arrive frozen, ready for holiday gatherings.
The deadline to place orders is September 20. Pickup will be held October 14 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 425 S. Michigan Street.
For additional information or to place an order, contact Nancy Ferris at 574-935-5617 or the TUMC office at 574-936-2519.
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