Fresh-baked pies in Brussels, Illinois
Open July through October
Pies we baked this morning, out at the Brussels stand by 9.
Saturdays and Sundays, in season. Peach pies in July and August. Blackberry while they last. Apple and dumplings as soon as the apples come in. Same recipes as we’ve always used.
Why grocery pies disappoint
A pie made by people who care tastes like nothing else.
If you’ve ever eaten a grocery store pie at Thanksgiving and felt your soul leave your body, you know.
- Mass-produced pies use canned filling and shortening crust. They’re engineered for shelf life, not flavor.
- The fruit was frozen six months ago in a different state. It tastes like the syrup it’s packed in, not the fruit.
- Crusts that came off a conveyor belt are dense and pale. They never crackle.
- You eat a slice, throw out the rest, and wait until someone bakes a real one.
We bake real ones. With our peaches, our blackberries, the apples we just picked.
From our trees to our oven
We grew the fruit. We rolled the crust.
Our pies are made from the same fruit you’d buy off our stand by the basket. Crusts hand-rolled. Baked the morning we sell them.
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AM Saturday and Sunday. That’s when the first pies come out.
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Pie kinds rotate through the season: peach, blackberry, apple, dumplings.
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Frozen ingredients. The fruit came off our trees this season.
How pies work at the stand
Show up Saturday morning. Or call ahead.
Pies sell out. Reservations beat heartbreak. Call by Friday to hold one.
Call by Friday.
Tell us which kind and how many. We hold them at the counter with your name on top.
Show up Saturday or Sunday.
Doors open at 10. The pies are out at 9 in the back, ready to be claimed.
Add a basket of fruit.
Pies pair with whatever is in season at the stand. Peaches, apples, blackberries. Round trip handled.
Take it home warm.
Wrapped to travel. Reheats well. Reheats even better with ice cream on top.
What goes in our pies
Same fruit. Same hands. Same recipes.
We don’t batch-bake on Tuesday and freeze for the weekend. Saturday and Sunday only.
Peach pie
July through August. Made from the peaches off our trees that week.
Blackberry pie
Most of July, while the blackberries last.
Apple pie
September through October. Hand-cut apples, our recipe.
Apple dumplings
Fall, by the half-dozen. Warm, glazed, the best thing in the bakery.
Reserve a pie
Saturday at 9. Don’t make us eat it ourselves.
Call ahead, show up, take it home warm.
Open daily, in season
- Monday12 PM – 5 PM
- Tue – Sat10 AM – 5 PM
- Sunday11 AM – 5 PM
Pies are baked Saturdays and Sundays only, in season (July through October).
3879 Illinois River Road
Brussels, IL 62013
Take Brussels Ferry from Grafton, or Golden Eagle Ferry from the Missouri side.