It may be Halle Lowry’s most unusual request since graduating from Paul Smith’s College in 2016. Lowry, a culinary major/baking minor who resides in Greece, got what she at first thought might have been a prank call. It went something like this.
On the evening of October 2, Halle received a phone call requesting 100 apple pies be baked by the following Monday, October 9. At first thought, Halle imagined that she would be chopping and baking the entire weekend to pull off this rather sizeable order, but that was just the start of the phone call.
The caller was coming from Hilton, a town that has an annual apple festival each October that draws upward of 50,000 people. Back in 1983, the festival, as a promotional gimmick, decided to make an attempt to bake the world’s smallest apple pie in a bottle cap. The year before, they tried to make the world’s largest apple pie; over 18 feet across, but were unsuccessful, as a town in England claimed the record. Now 2017, the local Historical Society decided to sponsor an event commemorating the Apple Fest and wanted to give a memento to all those who attended. That’s when the call came to Halle.
“I paused at first, because not everyday do you get a request for 100 pies. Then to hear the details of what they really wanted, well let’s jut say it was unusual.” Lowry said. “But after I thought about it for a night, it sounded fun and challenging. What would the recipe be?”
Halle would not give away her secret apple pie recipe, but she did say certain modifications needed to be made along the way.
“I did have to cut the apples into tiny, tiny little pieces,” Halle said. “I thought about my time at Paul Smith and never thought it would help me make bottle cap pies, but it did.”
Sure enough, by the morning of October 9, 100 pies were lined up ready for the Historical Society.
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