Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-02-10
'TE BODATIss ISIS ALL,
Queer Sayings and Doings OF the Psnnsy
Vanla Dutch

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vanIa Dutch.
''Ie bOdatiss ISIS all. "
The remark was made by a rosy
checked, black-eyed dining-room girl
IN a most excellent Pennsylvania Dutch
Inn, in small Lancaster County vii
lage. I had asked for another baked
potato.
Ter all, said the dining-room girl.
with a smile and a shake of her head.
'.All2" said l. "AI what?"
AN, " replied the girl, impatiently,
and with a suspicion Of contempt IN
her tone. ''Ie bodatiss is all 4"
A native, with the whiskers Of a
patriarch, II it was the habit Of the
patriarcls to anoint their boards at
meal time with mashed turnips and
chicken gravy, came to my rescue.
''She meanss ter hain't any more yit,
alretty. Ter all"
And thus / learned that the Pennsyl-
vauia Dutch never say that anything is
gone" If the bar runs out of beer,
the beer Is ''alL" When the sauerllraut
barrel is empty the kraut is call" But
there Is one thing that is never ''all "
That Is pie. If some thrifty and
hearty Dutch citizens should ever ask
for pic, and word should go back to
between him and his host would at
once become strained. But the neces-
slty Of asking Tor pie seldom exists,
either at tavern or farmhouse. At q
Pennsylvania Dutch inn the waiter
doesn't disturb your tympanum with /.
'Mincerapplepierpud'n?"
She 1etches ia the pie at the proper
time and places it before You. Not
only pie, but a whole pie; and not only
one whole pie, but sometimes three OF
four whole pies, all of different kinds.
The black-eved girl with rosy cheeks,
VINO knocked me ont by telling me that
the potatoes We're all, placed four uncut
pies on the table Immediately after
ward. There was a cheese custard, a
cranberry tart, a sweet potato custard,
and a suiLZ pie. No matter how many
pies there are on the table every guest
Is expected to help himself TO each
one as his inclination and capacity
prompt him. There is always enough.
The only thing that is short about
PENNSYLVANIA Dutch pies is the crust.
Snitz is dried apples. Snitz means
the cutting Of apples into small pieces
for drying, and snitz parties are among
the designations of the Dutch boys and
girls. A favorite Wand in the rural
and knep, a combination of dried
apples, fat pork, and dumphngs. all
boii-d together. This for supper
might not Mt first thought strike a
vegetarian as Just the thing to go to
bed with if he had set his mind on
gentle dalliance with the drOwsy god,
but it isn't so much of an alder and
abettOr Of nightmare as it looks
Slll, two plGtefuls isn't any too light
for one man to eat, especially If he irri-
gates it with a glass or two of last
years cider. The Pennsylvania Dutch
man isn't very susceptible to a Joke,
but there is one about snitz that he al
ways laughs at The Lancaster County
papers print it once every year as a
sort Of premium to their subscribers.
1t goes thus:
A teacher was giving q class Of
youngsters an object lesson In mathe-
MATES She held up an apple, and
asked the class what the apple would
make if she should cut it IN two pieces.
Halves, replied the class, promptly.
IF I cut the halves, what VIII they
maker"
Quarters"
''If l cut the quarters. what VIII they
make?"
'Snitzl" exclaimed the class, and
standard and historic iokeVwas born.
~ kroosht is Pennsylvania Dutch
for pieerust, and if you ask your girl
in that vernacular if she viii take
buggy ride, You gently whisper:
''Widdu fawry ?"
Schmierkase has ali seasons for its
own among the Pennsylvania Dutch
farmers, but it is only in the fall that
sauerkr tut and lodWaerrick get their
work in In the fall, too, metzelsup is
on the circuit and many rise up gladly
and clutch il. LodWaerrick Is APPLES
and cider boiled together until there is
no more cider left. and the apples
have become a savOry pulp the color
of q mahogany bureau In English the
result is called apple butter. 1t is
good There Is in existence in a truth
full family Of Lancaster County a sealed
jar of apple butter which was put
down before the Revolutionary war.
They are keeping it until some other
family produces a setting" of eight
eenth century buckwheat cakes Then
there viii be a feast
Every well-regulated Pennsylvania
Dutch farmer kills at least two fat
pigs every fall The butchering is a
grand affair. and all the neighbors join
in and help. When the hogs are killed,
dressed, and cut up, certain portions
are laid aside for those who helped in
the butchering and for gifts to poor
widows in the neighborhood. This is
distributed with a liberal hand, and is
called metzelsup. The farmer who
torgets the metzelsup is looked upon as
ono for whom perdition surely yayns.