89-Year-Old Woman Becomes Star After Baking Hundreds of Pies for People in Need
An 89-year-old great-grandmother who started baking pies for the vulnerable and elderly during 2020 has become a star for her sweet act of kindness.
Flo Osborne lives in sheltered accommodation in Dovercourt in Essex, England. She started baking apple, cherry, and savory steak pies in her tiny home kitchen for a local charity, and it fast became her new daily routine amid the lockdown during the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
NEST, an organization that provides support and donations of household items free of charge for families and individuals in need, distributes the pies among the elderly and vulnerable adults and children as a part of its hot meals program.
Flo, who makes every pie from scratch, grew up watching her mother bake and is now just following in her footsteps. Today, Flo’s family runs a restaurant, Samuel Pepys, and the kindhearted woman has made hundreds of pies since April 2020.
Her proud son, was brought up on Flo’s homemade pies. “To watch her make them is unreal,” watching her handmaking the pie crust, after mixing lard, margarine, flour, and cold water for the pastry, she “bangs it out and they’re done, and they’re perfect.”
Calling Flo “truly a local hero and a national treasure,” he shared the story of Flo and her special pies.
Flo said that “there’s no secret” to how delicious the pies really taste, and she gets the ingredients of the pie with the help of her family.
Flo revealed she loves baking these pies. “It keeps me going … Some people say I’m mad, but I just tell them that I love to help other people. If I can help them, I will.”
It is estimated that she makes about 20 pies for people every two weeks. Each pie makes 16 servings. “But she’ll always make extra pies so that our volunteers can enjoy them, too.”
