‘Mama’ Phillips, 90, keeps Bell Buckle cooking all year with her fried pies

The only thing sweeter in Bell Buckle than Nancy Phillips are the 120 fried pies she makes from scratch 362 days a year.

(That’s an annual total of 43,440 to be exact.)

Phillips enters her Bluebird Antiques & Ice Cream Parlor at 7 a.m. daily to create her yummy-for-your-tummy desserts in a cast-iron skillet one fried pie at a time. She starts with a dough recipe that’s been in her family for 100 years…

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