Home Of The World's Best Fried Pie
A Story About How A Dessert Called A Fried Pie And A Orchard Called Flippen Fruit Farm Became Famous
What Is A Old Fashion Fried Pie
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It is a Southern Dessert that has been around for a long time. Every morning the housewife would use the scrap biscuit dough left from breakfast and shape it into a half-moon pie filled with a fruit filling. Then the Fried Pie would be sent to work with the husband and to school with the kids. |
Flippen Fruit Farm is happy and extremely excited, because for the first time in the history of Flippens, thanks to the Internet, we are able to bring the world closer to us. Now you can purchase Flippen pastries and fresh farm products and have them delivered right to your door.
The Flippen flaky pie crust is Home Made and a secret family recipe, and is made from scratch. The recipe and making of the pastry is monitored very closely to be certain that each customer gets the best tasting Home Made Pie possible.
Flippen Home Made Pie Filling is made from fruit grown in our own orchards and especially selected for the world famous desserts.
Flippen Fried Pies are fully cooked so all you have to do is
HEAT AND EAT !!!No mess for you and your kitchen.
Millions of Fruit pies have been made with Millions of Satisfied customers!!!
We even have SUGAR FREE FRIED PIES. A great treat for people who need to limit their sugar intake.
Flippen Southern Desserts can even be frozen and kept for any occasion you desire. Then all you have to do is
THAW, HEAT, and EAT !!!
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Flippen Pies are offered in Nine Delicious Flavors
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The Early Years
The story of Flippen Fruit Farm is a story of how a farmer switched from raising cotton to starting a Peach and Apple Orchard in the 1950's and slowly but surely expanded into the Fried Pie industry that would greatly exceed their expectations.
Jack and Diane Flippen struggled in the early years, and from hard work increased the size of their Apple and Peach Orchard every year. They had three children, Pam , Suzie and Hayes. They all started working in the orchard at an early age, because they wanted to eat too, (ha-ha). All three went to college and all three got married. Then as destiny would have it all three would return to work in the family business.
Having to be Versatile
In 1984, a severe hailstorm was a blessing in disguise. Due to the damage to the apple and peach crop, the fruit couldn't be sold on the fresh market. It looked like everything would have to be thrown away. But here comes the "BLESSING", the idea for FLIPPEN FRIED PIES was born.
The Birth of the Fried Pie
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Not wanting to throw the fruit away, the Flippens decided to process the peaches and Apples and put them in the freezer. Now it was up to Diane Flippen better known as "Mama Dan". She worked all winter on a flaky pie crust and fruit fillings, testing the recipes on everybody in the family, the neighborhood, and her church. Daddy Jack gained 25 pounds that winter before Mama Dan settled on the perfect mixture of flaky Pie crust and sweet fruit filling.
Marketing Flippen Fried Pies
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The Flippen family knew they had a very good product, but marketing the pastry was something new to them. Mama Dan started making a couple dozen Pies a week in her home selling them to friends and neighbors. The Flippens were then invited to an arts and craft festival at Reelfoot Lake, a state park close to where they live. They sold about 150 Fried pies. The Flippens knew the pies were going to be a success. The following year they purchased a concession wagon and traveled the country selling the flaky pastry at every event they could enter. FLIPPEN FRIED PIES were a hit everywhere they went. In 2002, at the three-day arts and crafts show at Reelfoot Lake, 20,000 pies were sold with customers standing in line for an hour just to enjoy this flaky dessert !
Mama Dan and Daddy Jack
More Births
The fried pies sold so well that the Flippens needed a bigger and better facility. In 1988 they built a pie kitchen and market to sell their fresh fruit and fried pies. There were four small tables where the customers could eat pies or the hamburgers they served. One day a bus loaded with tourists stopped in to eat. Daddy Jack was so over come with joy, and knowing how good of a cook, Mama Dan was, he said we need a bigger restaurant.
In 1990 a larger restaurant was built overlooking two beautiful lakes. The restaurant has a large deck with an area for feeding ducks, geese and fish. It is surrounded by a large outside garden and several acres of our orchards.
Just the perfect place to get away from it all and feast on great southern cooking.
The Birth Of A Cookbook
After enjoying 15 years of cooking for the masses, Daddy Jack and Mama Dan retired and closed the restaurant. Mama Dan had so many inquiries about her delicious dishes that she started gathering all of her most treasured recipes together and Mama Dan's Southern Country Cooking Cookbook was born.
Over one hundred pages of the best Old Fashion Southern Style Cooking you can find. By Southern Cooking I mean fried country ham, purple hull peas, green
beans, cooked slow with bits of ham, fried chicken with mashed
potatoes and cream gravy, and hot biscuits with butter melting inside.
All of us southerners love hot bread; we have angel biscuits, yeast
rolls, Sally Lunn, cornbread and flitters. You just have to try the
flitters.Have you had round steak and gravy or chicken and
dumplings. What about corn casserole, this was a favorite in the
restaurant, Jade salad, or chocolate steam cake. When I think of pies,
I think of pecan, sweet potato, chess, burnt caramel, coconut cream,
and chocolate cream pie. Oh, we can't forget about the southern fried
pie, which my family is best known for. By the way, all of these easy,
low cost dishes are found in my cookbook.
In 2009
Now the Flippen family has a Farm Market where peaches, apples, pears, plums, and nectarines, fresh from their very own orchards, are sold in season. The market also has jams, jellies, apple butters, candies cakes, cookies, all made in Mama Dan’s kitchen.
There is a pie factory where millions of FLIPPEN FRIED PIES have been made, and to think all of this coming from a disastrous hailstorm.
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More Products
Here at Flippen We are Proud of all our Products
Peach Syrup made from the juice of our own Peaches Great for ice cream topping ,Peach milk shakes and much much more!
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Our Home Made Breads we make by the thousands and ship out to ours customers, Dinners Rolls, Pans Rolls, Demi Loafs ,and Home Made Biscuits
For ours Customers who want to makes their own Flippen pies we have our dough mix in a jar just add water to make the dough and then add our mix and cook
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Our Bar-B-QUE Sauce is special. We have three flavors Hot, Mild, and
Apple Jack that has small chunk's of ours apples in it .
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You can place an order on line, email us, fax or if you just want to
talk. You can reach us at
1-731-538-2933 phone
E-Mail: hflip45@dishmail.net
1-731-538-2936 fax
