Yeah, they completely left out "how" they baked it...I wanna know! That's a cliffhanger leaving ya hanging for the info lol. Amazing that they were able to make one that big!
Now it’s 32 years later and our Guinness Book of Records still stands proudly in Oliver, British Columbia Canada. Yes, we were a little short sighted in not preserving our pie pan for display but at the time we were celebrating the success of our gigantic and very ambitious project. The cost of that monster? Absolutely nothing! Everything was donated. I was one of the pastry crew and we rolled a heck of a lot of dough for those lower and upper crusts. All ingredients were provided and our local bakery made large blocks of it. Our fellow Rotarian, Bob Ellis was responsible for sussing out how much we needed to accomplish our goal. The cherries were pitted and made into pie filling at a small business that made fruit leather for a few years. Timing was everything so that our pie would be perfectly edible. A large hole was hollowed out of the ground in our community park to use as the oven. A grate was placed over the top and BC Gas piped it and supplied the fuel to bake it. We added a pretty fancy lid that was shaped like a tent and covered with foil. We stuck our cherry logo on top. It was ready to slide into its oven around dawn and baked until mid afternoon. Approximately 3,000 people celebrated with us, enjoyed bowls of our cherry pie. It was a very hot afternoon but no one cared. It was a very fun and memorable event. We’ve had Chef Lynn Crawford here with her Food Network program “Pitchin’ In” for an episode celebrating cherries and we’ve had BC Was Awesome come to share in our 25th anniversary. It’s a story that will never grow tired!
