The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-06-05
Pies.

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America. A single New York bakery
claims that it produces nine hundred
pies an hour from one of its ten capa-
cious ovens, and total of fifty thou
sand pies daily, the year round, forcing
the supply occasionally up to sixty-fve
thousand-probably on Fourth of July,
or other festal occasions. Let the read
er busy himself with imagining the to-
trl production of pies by this and all
other bakeries of tho country during a
twelve-month Nevertheless, these fa-
cilities would be inadequate to the pop
ular demand, were the majority of our
countrymen of stomach rs unbounded
AZ that of the Dundee laborer, whom a
Scotch journal commentaries. This
extraordinary person, Aaying not long
since eaten nine large two-penny pies
at Dundee pie-shop within fourteen
and q half minutes announced his pur-
pose to eat, on the following Monday,
twelve pies within twenty-five minutes ;
and, in fact, when the delicacies were
put before him in the shape Of six
pound pile, fourteen inches high, he
consumed half dozen in five minutes,
the next three mt the end of eleven
minutes, and the last three in six min
rtes more, having ended his repast
eight minutes sooner than he designed
possibly owing to the pangs of hung
er, since he expressed u willingness to
occupy the spare moments with devour-
ing another half dozen pies.
With this item of news in fresh re-
membrance, we charced to read in a
very old English newspaper the supper
eaten many years ago, by Mr.. Oakley,
of Stanton, Derbyshire-a repast which
makes the Scotchman's just recorded
rather frugal by comparison. His first
dish, says the report, was two quarts of
milk, thirty eggs, half pound of but
ter, half a pound of sugar, three penny
loaves, quantity of ginger and nut
meg, and an ounce of mustard, all boil
ed together his second course was ga
piece of cheese and n pound of bread
to it :" the third was n half pound of
bacon, penny loaf and quart of ale,
followed by three half-pennies' worth of
gingerbread and pint of ale his
fourth dish was custard of two pound,
an ounce Of mustard, some black pep
per, pint of milk and three pints of
ale to it. This banquet he finished in
an hour, and then ungratefully com
planned of not having had enough so,
after running three hundred yards by
way of IN appetizer, he sat down with
the rest of the company, who had wit
messed his prowess, and drank pretty
freely. Yet even this exploit is hardly
equal to the marvel in digestion report
ed IN the same ancient newspaper OF Il
Truro porter, who, for bet of five shil-
lings, ate two pairs of worsted stockings
fried in train oil, half pound Of yellow
soap into the bargain. The losers OF this
wager might have been more cautious
had they known that the same atrocious
glutton once undertook to eat as much
tripe as would make himself II jacket
with sleeves and was accordingly mea-
sured by tailor, who regularly cut out
the materials, when, to general surprise,
the voracious fellow ate up the whole in
twenty minutes, Compared with these
performances, some of the current prod
igies of gormandism which the papers
so often report are surely as tritling in
amount as they are tame and uninven-
tive in the character of their details. -
LippincOtEs Magazine.