Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-09

| got too much WHISKY ihlO the pies, TN
| minister's wife came over 10 borrow .
pie before they got cold and that even.
! ing some OF the neighbors called In
! and found the whole family ibid out
with the sim-jams. There ain't \
| better pie in the world than good
strong mince pie when iis mixed right
but, nv landy, when the insides ain't
half stirred up Id just AZ leaf eat a,i
old shoe, though its all in the way
ones brought up,
once eat piece ot mince pie al
the hotel in Cleveland, and GOOD land.
of all the pies. | sometimes get to
dresmin' of that pie get, and wonder
what the landlord was thinkin' OF
| when he made it. Why, the boarders
| told me that they used TO take whole
| pie down to the jewellers and get il
made into hair chain az watch
guard.
nNecessitv's the mother OF invcn.
tion, and don't wonder now when !
see bald-headed cook.
aHow much sugar do yon take?
oval, that depends on whether you
want il very sweet or not; there ain'f
| one in ten that likes a swect pie, and
| then again some cant get away with q
mouthful. If II aini sweeier'n malas-
ses Jug.
"Now father was always great
hand for swect'nin' before he failed in
biziness (sent to Columbus for stealin'
! horses) but after that he kind O sOured
on everything, and said he didn't give
a cent whether he had sugar or not.
I'm 4 great hand for sweetnin', and
every one in my family has a sugar
tooth in their heads which makes a
great difference, you bet! when ii
comes to inixin' up mince meat
"Do you use eggs in your mince
pies ?"
elbow many does it require ?"
"Well, that depends on whether the
hens are layin' or not. When eggs is
plenty use plenty, but when the old
scratch gifts into the hens, and yon
can't find an egg once u month, its
precious little use pnttin' in eggs. 1t
does distress me when think of them
pesky hens. Somo of them tend right
up to their Dizziness and lay all winter
long, but there is lot of them blast
cd s'shangaroos," that father bought
out to the Northern Ohio Fair, and
the Bramys they afn't worth the time
IL takes to wiring their necks, they
Just 60 round all day sqnawking
like all possessed, eating up ev-
erything spoons, forks, shingle
nails--left out doors, and don't lay
nrore'n one egg year, and that's soft
shelled one. Then last spring went
and chalked off an odd number of nice
fresh eggs and put 'em under hen
that had been checking around for y
week. About two weeks after that
went out to the barn aud found that
she had left the eggs and been sitting
on lot OF corn cobs. My gracious !
| never came so near losin' my tenn
per in the world. l tied about ten
yards of red flannel to her tail, dncked
her once or twice in the horse pond,
and let her go. That ended her fnn."
"Yes, what do you nse for tlavor-
ing z"
"There again yon'il have TO use your
own Judgment. Some likes one thing
and some another, you know. If you
go the whole figure ON temperance,
why some other kind o aavorin' II do
'spose. But whatever yon make up
your mind to use, be partic'Iar to get
in q snfficiency, or else your pie II be
fiat. always make 1t u pint"
GLOW long must II bake
"Well, bakin's what makes the PIE.
1t it taint chucked right in the oven as
soon as the crust's on it's apt to sour ;
or, if it's in chair the cat win jump
on it and lie down, and there's nothing
makes pie SO soggy and hat as to
have cat lie on it an hour or two.
have worked sometimes half an hour
with bellows and saleratns to git a
pie crust up again after cats laid on
1t. Roback's plaster is all that will
fetch pie up after it's been sat down
or or dropped"
Il flatter myself that can throw up
ju as good a pie as ans woman in
C,A wford county, cats or no cats, and
for lettin' such things bother me
Here we lett, to lay Mrs. Rooten-
toots recipe for mince pics before our
readers. Michigan F'arWer.