Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-24
PIE.

From the New York Times, Dec. 80.
Walking along one of the avenues,
there was a pleasant odor 1t recalled
the long lost ambrosiai fragrance
which once greeted our youthful senses,
long, long ago Like sleuth- hound on
a trail we instinctively followed our
nose. IT was not the smell of baked
pies, what was it +? With faculties
strained to the utmost, amid din and
clatter of chopping and pounding, there
came rattle of tin pans, all proceed
ing from large building. In front of
it stood inumerable wagons and vans,
blocking the street, and boys and men
with pies in baskets, boxes and tray s
were rushing in and out in the most de
lirious way, as if life depended upon
their securing u given quantity of pies.
Why" we asked of driver, "why
do you have two horses to one pie wag-
on - We could understand two horses
to a load of paving stones, but notfor q
load of pies. ss
Why, you see, said the driver, ga
pie Che SAID poy) is kind of delicate
thing, and has got to be kept haky.
the heft of a pie is two and q half
pounds, and as we carry 500 of them,
and IS get to be carried along easy, a
steady wagon with no shake is the thing.
We loads up mostly with 500, but as we
are driven most mad Just now, we piles
III all the pies the horses can pull"
"You don't mean to say that all
those wagons full of pies are sold in a
day, do you % we inquired
{. Five hundred-eight hundred-to
a load, amt no circumstances. I'll be
back here to-day two or three times fol-
more. Why, it amt mouthful-hard
~ bite.
"What kind are the most in de.
mand !" ~
"They is running desperut on
minces Just now, and is not on cranber-
ries. Jim, what's your load, y he inquir
ed of another driver. .#rLr -
EThree hundred minces, one hun
bred apples, and the rest of the load is
pumpkins and cranberries. Bless me,
if there isn't one street Pm almost
altered to go to, seein I've had to dis
appint 'em three days hand running Oh
minces 1t don't do to fool with
women folks just now who has made W
their minds to have mince pies for then
Christmas dinners"
Without much trouble we made oul
entrance into the pie factory. Pies
| We never saw SO many III our life.
Pies were packed NY fifty deep, al
around you higher than your head. Pies
were as walls, pies were coming and
going all the time. There whizzled a
steam engine, turning machinery adap-
ted to pie-making, and there, with then
mouths wide open, their capacious
maws cram full of pies, the glare of the
furnace throwing its rudy glare on the
golden pies, acres of pies were getting
baked. Men were slapping and bang.
ing about Jumps of dough, rolling the
pie crust into sheets, prickling and
marking them with an H. (for Harry,
evidently) like in the Mother Goose
story, while scores of women were Ia
dleing out good things and examining
apples in the pies. There stood hog
heads of sugar-one man distributing
1t around in the most reckless way with
a shovel On one side Kissed and sput-
tered huge watts. with cranberrles get
ting cooked by steam. Was it possible
that all the men, women and children
in the world could eat that stack OF
pumpkins piled up in the corner there
What is that awful looking machine,
grinding and rumbhng away? It is
the mince meat maker, the GROWING
| masterpiece of the whole.
"What ~ we asked, "are all those
watts full of mince- meat?"
g Yes" replied the proprietor, g and
we are dreadfully short, and can hard
ly keep up with demand The poor
machine is worked beyond it's capaci
ty." ..
How many pies do you turn out IL
week 90 .s5
At an average of forty thousand
per week; but we are running now
much above that.
"How many months will that feed 2
we inquired.
cts hard to say Maybe it's &C
cordlng whether they cuts them in foul
OF across"
How on earth did this colossal bus
mess begin p -..
C In the simplest way. My wife com
menced baking with q range, and wheI
we had sold the first four we made foul
more. After while-it was in 1853
the range wouldn't stand the pressure
no, not hundred ranges. The PEG
pie was wild on our pies, and it's kept
IN kind of overwhelming way ever
since"
Americans are, then, the pie-eaters
of the world %
Pies and liberty go hand III hand
its constant business. Cheap fruit may
effect us for month or SO, but ever sc
little. Now We are running on mince
heavy but apple pies are staple all the
year round. "
Fruits is in-cats is out we very
inadvertently remarked, as if to our.
SELVES
''Sir, D." replied the worthy proprietor
gravely, "I have forgiven the lamented
Mr. Dickens long ago for this bit OF
| fun"
De mortu5S-ahem, . we said.
Just So" was the reply 'FWe
make them honest. Only the best
flour will make a good crust. Try q
piece of the mince,' and huge seq,
ment was offered to u.s.
G 1t may not be an aristocratie pie,
with layers on layers of crust, like a
Webster's Dictionary has leaves, but
it is-may [ call it sO-a sincere article
and appeals to the masses" We ate a
piece, and found it was sincerity itself
in pie sense. With our mouthfull,
We said ~ s5.5sIEE
The Queen of Hearts,
She made some tarts
All on a summers day.
"That might have been in the nur-
sery rhymes, but here it is no child's
play. What, with forty hands and
thirty horses in the pie business, that
Queen would have her hands full -
Are you we'll posted i'll the history
of mmce-pies - We asked. cit is
Dutch, is it not Brought over here
from Holland .
Very likely, it's an American insti-
tuition now"
You don't know how old it is do