Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-29
ONE MEAT PIE GONE DRY.
Young Mrs. Newlywed Discovers That
Experience Costs Gravy.

That sweet little woman Mrs. Newlywet
feels in despair of ever becoming practical
cook. 1t CHANGED the other night that she hat
prepared for her dear Edward meat pie, an(
| the dish used to bake it in being larger thar
was needed for so small family, she adopted
little expedient she had been told Of by
more experienced housewife and pleced in the
middle Of the dish tea cup upside down tc
hold up the crust at the central point, filling il
the receptacle round about with cubes of BEEF
and gravy previously prepared after the
fashion of a stew. Finally, she covered the
whole with nice crust, neatly trimmed off Al
the edges, and put it in the oven to bake. For
such is the way, she had learned, to make 9
meat pie.
When Edward came home and was ready fol
dinner it was with no little pride that she
placed on the table with her own pretty hands
the hot dish fresh from the oven, and as be
plunged his knife through the
BROWN AND APPETIZING CRUST
she gazed with fond anticipation upon the re,
suit Of her labors, the delicious qualities Of
which were on the point of being developed
She was helped first of course six or eight
cubes OF beef and the brownest bit Of crust
falling to her share. But she noticed with
alarm that Of the gravy, SO essential in pre-
paration OF the sort, there was not a single
but 1T was as dry as Dead sea fruit.
my treasure" she faltered, II fear there
must have been some mistake in the recipe fol-
this pie. never saw a meat pie before with
out plenty of gravy. Certainly put a guam
tity in, but it seems to have all dried up"
II think it very good myself" responded the
new-made husband. II am sure that l have
never tasted more delicious pie"
As he spoke he was unable to restrain q little
choke over one of the dry pieces of beef, and
the eyes of the young wife filled with tears.
al am sure did my very best to make il
NICE" she said. with little gulp.
MY preciousr'
"My darling!"
BY this time the formalities of the table had
been dispensed with and she was sitting on his
knee shedding few consolatory tears into his
napkin. When she had regained her accus-
toned cheerfulness by this natural method she
began laughing and they both fell into the mer.
riest tit imaginable. Then he asked, jokingly
THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
"NIy angel, what is that cup for that see
turned upside-down in the middle Of the
dish?"
why, don't you understand, you sweet old
goose" was her reply. 1T makes the pie look
pretty. II the cup wasn't there the crust
would sink down in the center"
With this she leaned over and taking the cup
between her dainty thumb and foreinger lifted
it up-when, 10! there flowed from the cup into
the dish quite half pint of delicious, rich
brown gravy. 1t had been there all the time
but in the process Of baking, the cup fitting
closely to the bottom Of the receptacle, the ali
inside the cup had become rarihed by the heat
and thus all the gravy in the dish, in quantity
about half pint, had been sucked up into the
cup. The young husband explained this natu.
raj phenomenon to his bride and now she sayi
that no such wicked law Of physics-as Edward
called it-shall ever cheat her out of gravy fol
hnr Mic ..ba ill IL
under that swindling old cup every time OF
have Edward poke his knife beneath it.