Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-02-01
HOW PIES ARE MADE.

VOW flCO HnC mNbC.
- Amount Devourcd by Pastry Loving
Few Yorkers-some Startling Figures.
A great revolution has gone on in the
nanufacture and compromising OF pie.
10 more the housewife carefully meas
Wes out "a cup of milk, a spoonful Of
aleratus, a lump of butter, pinch of salt,
three tahlespoonfuls Of sugar, four sliced
spples and q little pure Lard" Today
The dough Is kneaded by steam and the
svens are vast and hot breathed caverns.
IN the great kitchen Of the modern pie
factory are numbers of immense copper
kettles surmounting brick ovens, and fat
male cooks stir the savory masses within.
On little tables around the oom arc
dozens of wooden tubs holding the Innings
for thousands of pies. Then the busy
bakers take the dough, and before the
sven door with deft and rapid touches
press it into the shape Of the embryo pie,
into q pan and a line of pies is soon pass
ing into the ovens mouth with wonder
full celebrity. The ordinary ovens used
will hold about $50 small pies and the
temperature required is graduated with
remarkable skill.
New York, of course, produces and eats
more pies than any city in the world,
although its per capita consumption is
collapsed by Chicago, Boston and Philadel-
phia. There are eight or ten large fac
tories dealing exclusively in pies, and be-
tween 500 and 500 bakers also make
them. The largest factory is on Sullivan
street, and its output Of pie is something
awful to contemplate, and when one
thinks of the number of churches and
schools the money spent for pie would
build, it is a question il the people should
not stop and ask. ''Whither is this awful
habit carrying us?" In a year or two the
pie habit may rank with the curse of
drink and evils of tobacco as a neve
failing fountain from which debating So
ieties and lyceums can draw topics to
argue on.
One of the foremen in the factory on
Sullivan street said:
'sIn cur establishment we turn out
every kind of pie SO far discovered, but
there are certain kinds that are staple.
These are apple, minee, lemon, grape,
nisin, plum, g~ooseberry, whortleberry,
strawberry, peach. raspberry, pineapple,
pumpkin and custarl. Apple, mince,
lemon, pumpkin and Custard are the IA
vorites. All our material is the finest in
the market, and we buy it in large guam
titles, always keeping u orders ahead"
"How much material do you use
1aily2" asked the reporter.
''ln a single lay we use about 100
dozen eggs, $50 pounds Of lard, IL bar
rels of -four. 600 quarts of milk, $500
quarts of fruit, and turn out about 1000
pies, OF about 30, 900 q week and 2,G00,-
900 a year. The output from the large
concerns in the city will amount to 35,-
900 pies daily, and the bakers will turf
out about 40, 900 more, or 20, 900 a day,
S25, 900 a week and 81, 800, 900 per
year. an average Of about sixteen pies per
capita. These pies cut into quarters the
usual sizes outside of boarding houses
would make 1909. 200, 900 pieces. At an
average OF five cents-as some of the
cheap restaurants charge only three
cents, and tonier ones ten cents-this
would make New Works annual pie bill
IS, AGO, 900, or more than we pay for
public schools. or the fire and police de-
partments, or send TO the heather. New
York produces about one-thirtieth Of the
pie crop of the United States"
This last remark aroused a statistical
vein in the reporter, and he figured until
his brain was dizzy, and these are some
Of the results: In the United States there
are eaten every DAY 2,250, 900 pies; each
week. 10, $50, 900; each year, sl9,O00,-
900, at a cost of S163, 500, 900. an amount
greater than the internal revenue, and
more than enough 10 pay the interest on
the national debt and pensions. II the
pies eaten daily We're heaped n on top
of another they would form a pie tower
1893, 900 feet, or nearly thirty-seyen miles
high; If laid out in line they would reach
from New York to Boston. With the
pie products OF a year a tower 49, q
miles high could be erected, and stretched
out they would cover a line 80, $50 miles
long. or sufficient to grille the earth
three times and let a Chinaman in Pekin
chew at the last pie. These pies before
eaten would weigh in u year sos. 900
ton Pie is a great institution, as these
figures show. New York Journal.