The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-03-04
Aunt Calista's AppIesauce.

you taste 1T wal, yes, L spcct L do
make amazin' good applesass, but l
s'pose-hev another gickle-I didn't
s'pose but wkat anybody could tell what
it was.
Want to know how l make it, hey
So you do like it. But you're out O tea
This tea amt fust rate. We ginerally
hev pretty good tea 4; git it at Tanners
he allus has good tea. This came from
Starlin's, and l say it's miserable stuff
Wal, bout the applesass. l take my
apples greenins, when l can git 'em,
but l couldn't git em this year. Dan''s
greenins was failure. But, then, pip
pins, nice, meller ones, does bout as
well, or Spitzenbergs. In fact, l like
Spitzenbergs better than any other kind
for sass, but we amt got none. Danl
sot out three trees in the south orchard,
but none o 'cm ever got to bcarin;
but | was sot on havin' Spitzenbergs,
and didn't give him no peace till he GOT
couple more and sot 'cm out in the
dooryard Hey another biskitl Them
bisliits la int real good my oven WANT
Jess right when put EN- in. Wall, |
nussed those trees rs if they'd been hu
man beins, and-massy how bad felt
one day when Neabits COW got into the
yard and broke one on EN- down. She
Jess walked right up to it and begun to
rub her head agin it. | tool. my hahds
right out o the dough and started for
her, but before got there she had broke
,i' H., III, e.,,
O the trunk OF it, and he's got it yet.
OF course, thought a dreadful sight
of the other one, but that got spilled,
too; | declare | can't think of it with
out gittin' mad-hev some more of the
sass, do Some folks don't think much
of apple sass but, law, | think jess as
much of it as | do of prcserves-O, yes,
| was goin' to tell you bout that other
tree.
| had rheumatics that FALL and plcu
risy, awful | jess had to give up and
hev help. Hev another piece o cheese I
Dan'l, he went over to Bordentown and
brung home a raw, strappin' Irish girl.
She was strong and she was willin; but
law, how she did smash my chinyware,
and sop around She did beat all to
spill things 1t rles me jess to think
what l had to 90 through with while
she was here.
One day. | lay III bed sort o comfort
able, n | heard an awful crash, n u YELL
| got out o bed best | could, N kinder
held on chairs n things, n got to the
kitchen door, II what do YOU think I
Why, she n the broom n the stove n
the big iron kettle lay all in a heap on
the floor Q, YOU may laugh, but tell
you | didn't feel much like it. was
mad 1t seemed she was sweepin' and
knocked the legs out from under the
stove, the front legs give n great drive
agin' EN- with her broom, ! spose. Its
my belief she could have Knocked the
side of the house down if she had only
gone at it with determination.
That apple sass @, yes, I'm going
to tell You. You see there was dreille
dry spell that Fall n used to throw my
washin' water roun' the apple tree
Soapsuds is good fur em. tole Ann
sen |, "Whel. YOU git through with the
water in the biler throw it 'roun' the
apple tree an DO You bleve it, that
great gawk went n poured moren three
pals OF bllin hot water 'roun' That apple
tree
Q, yes; the sass WAL, | peel the
apples n leave EN- hull, dig out the
cores n Til in with sugar-you can use
any kind of sugar you want to. Some
takes brown sugar, but I'm in favor o
whitehall, put EN- in pan n put
some water in the bottom, cover it up
tight n and let EN- stew II steam. How
longl Wal, that depends on the size o
your apples. l ginerally let 'em stew
while I'm putin away my skins n wipin'
off my parin' knife n so on. l can't
bear things clutterin' roun' my kitchen
table; allus put EN- away Just as fast as
l git through with 'em. Some folks
amt So There's Mrs. Fisher-Phia-
mon Fishers wife. I've bin in there
sometimes when she was bakin'-pass
the cake, will youl its highest you.
Hev a piece, do; it's pound cake. As |
was sayin', I've bin in Mrs Fishers
kitchen when she was a bakin'. n she'd
hcv both leaves of her table up an both
full; cipnymon, n lard, n allspice, n
rollin' pins. They do say Mrs. Allen
has got glass roIlin' pin. Her darter