Fresh Bungalow Pies
Every now and then I visit a little online auction site looking for house parts and decorations. I found this nifty “Bungalow Pies” pan a few days ago and thought it would look great on my kitchen wall. We already have other functional wall decorations in the kitchen including a pot rack and a serving basket, so the pie pan will fit in well.
A google search for “bungalow pies” only yielded one hit– an ebay listing for a pie pan like the one I bought– so I have no idea what the story is for this item. Was there an old bakery called “Bungalow Pies?” Was this an incentive (“buy the house and get this free pie pan!”) to bungalow buyers? Or is this simply a contemporary scam to stamp “bungalow” on generic old pie pans and sell them for a premium to innocent, charming, dashingly handsome housebloggers? Who knows!
If it is genuinely old, it is probably from the bungalow heyday, when bungalow-anything would have been popular. The idea of a fresh pie cooling on a bungalow windowsill on a crisp morning must have sounded like heaven on earth back then. Actually, that still sounds pretty fantastic.
11 Responses to “Fresh Bungalow Pies”
i made a rustic cherry pie last night and i was saying to derek that if the window sit was big enough i’d probably put it there to cool.
good pie tin
That is insanely cool! I wish that someone would remake those…
Deb, that rustic cherry pie sounds delicious. I do most of the cooking in our house, but I haven’t tried making pie that often. With Minnesota apple season just a few weeks away, it would be fun to go to an orchard then come home and make a yummy pie.
JM, I’m not sure how common these pie pans are, but there were two on eBay at the time I bid on this one.
How interesting. I wonder what the origin of it is?
I was able to find a “Bungalow Pies” that several now deceased people worked for in South Bend, Indiana (the obituaries list it). I wonder if that is where it came from.
Wow, Schmobes! That’s some great research. How’d you find it? That seems like as likely an origin for this pie pan as anything.
I picked up a plate hanger for the pie pan at the hardware store yesterday, so now I just need to consult with Ms. Bungalow about where the pan should go on the walls.
Bungalow pies were made by the Bungalow Pie Company in South Bend, IN. My wifes Grandmother & my mother used to work there. I think it went out of business in the late 70’s.
I have 3 of these pans that I set aside when I wss a dishwasher at the Denny’s in South Bend in High School (1975/76). Bungalow Pie Company supplied almost all restaurants in the Michiana Area with pies that most customers believed were “home made” in the restaurants own kitchen. They delivered daily and made all fruit and cream varieties.
That pan is an original Bungalow Pie Company pan. I just put one just like it in my dishwasher after having the last piece of apple pie.
Yeah, Michiana. I just found two of them in a southwest Michigan thrift shop.
Nice find, Phil. Gotta love those thrift shops!