Mom's Pie House

What a weekend! Didi and I spent Saturday driving up to Julian and realized that apple season doesn't really start until September so we made the day work by visiting Mom's Pie House. This is the place to go for great fruit pies.  We sampled a cherry and apple pie, and ended up ordering a slice of it, as well as three large apple dumplings to take home.  This place gets crowded and the line for ordering and pick up sometimes gets quite long, although the wait isn't too bad, especially for these pies.

Mom's Pie House is a full service one of-a-kind pie shop. Mom's is famous for making apple pie that would make Grandma proud. All of their pies are made fresh daily, by skilled bakers using only the finest fruit and purest ingredients available.

Mom's History

Mom's Pie House was created, from scratch, in December 1984 by Anita Nichols, "Mom" to Laurie, Teak, Erica and Jesse. She had a vision - to make a delicious, homemade pie from the already famous Julian apples. When she first opened, in the old Julian Cafe building, the bakery measured a whopping 10 by 22 feet, and had very cozy seating for two! Mom used one small electric oven for all of her baking, and peeled her own apples using a counter-mounted peeler.

Mom's flaky crusts and not-too-sweet fillings were a hit with locals and tourists alike, and a line snaking outside the door of the tiny bakery became commonplace. In the fall of 1987, Mom began to expand the bakery to include a larger kitchen and more seating. She also started baking cookies, cinnamon rolls, and other sweet homemade treats.

Twenty years of hard work later, Mom is still rolling out those flaky piecrusts in the front window, smiling at the eager, hungry faces peering in at her, and is still creating a high quality, mouth-watering, homemade pie!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We went to Julian last summer. Didnt have any pie, as we ate a huge lunch. But we walked in back of the restaurant,and laughed at the Washington apples boxes all piled up. But thats ok, we know that apple season is not in summer! Next trip, we will have pie!
Leilani

Sam Paano said...

Mom's Pie House also makes great cookies. Didi and I also bought chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, and ginger snaps. Yummy!

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