St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-27

sumed last year. There are at least two
reasons why st. Paul is not pie-aating
city, ana therefore does not make a
large showing in that line when COM
pared with Eastern or Southern
competitors. One reason is that the
people are Sticklers for observing the
laws Of health and an aversion to en-
courage dyspepsia by swallowing indi-
gestinie pastries-nOt that there are not
as good pie bakers here as any place in
the country-but st. Paul deniztns are
philosophical and have protited by OBJ
servation and reading numerous
anatnemas on the experimental pie
maker. The house wives knowing that
family ills. jars and arrangements are
more the outgrowth of pie eating than
the pr0verbial biscuit or any other
cause. therefore do not tempt the demon
of dyspepsia to enter tire household.
Another reason for the small cOnsump-
ton is founl in the fact that the
busting, rnstling man of the
Northwest has no time for other
than the SubSJantias OF life
anA. therefore, is not a dessert eater.
L h t.ine that is spent by his cousins OF
the East or South in luxuriating, de-
vnurirg tid-bits and delicious morsels,
he votes to wrecking along the mael-
view of storing up as much of the jat
sam and tOtSam commodity of the uni
verse as devoting all his energies and
time to the occupation will accomplish.
THE PIE OF ST. PAUL
is, with minor exceptions. WHAT'S called
ntne-inch pie:. it is wiOlesaled at 10
cents and, at the restaurants and lunch
counters, en- into quarters at five cents
"a piece. The lunch counter restan.--
ants make sc.ibhlers, consisting of alter
nate layers OF apples or Peaches and
crust and serve it with milk dressing
4fat five cents per" The bakeries
make a limited Number OF tive-cent turn
overs to supply the railroad eating
houses and venderS on the trains. New
York, Pittsburg, Cincinnati. st. Louis
and Boston have large trade in these
.five-cent pies.
1t may he truthfully said that the pie
is au United States luxury, ana that
America is nation OF pie-eaters, New
York and Boston standing at the head
of the list as pie devOurerS. The Irish;
however, have a great fondness for the
article, particularly of the apple kind.
The Jersey Yankee is prOverbially fond
of pumpkin pie and Jersey milk. The
New Yorker is fond of apple pie. The
Cincinnatian takes lemon pie. In Della
ware peach has the preference. In
PENNSYLVANIA they are not partic-
ular, SO long as it IS fruit
or berry pie. That is true to large ex-
tent of the South. The mince pie, with
a plentiful stitfening of brandy, is popu-
! lar everywhere, and the Old-faSlliOhed
dried apple pie has gone out Of style all
over the land. The coIored people have
a weakness for all kinds. The style of
pie varies somewhat with the season.
During the winter it is mince, apple,
lemon, cranberry or custard. In the
spring rhubarb serves to vary the mo-
notony until Strawberries. cherries,
raspbeIrieS, currents, peaches and
plunlS are marketed.
- A SUMMER LUXURY.
= The consumption of pies in st. Paul
during the winter is comparatively
small, but after fruits and berries are
marketed the trade becomes quite brisk.
The sales are greatest at the noon hour.
The bakeries are then rushed in selling
their wares to the boys, girls. working
men, shop men and clerks who buy
Single pie presumably for their lunches.
1t is amusing to see many people eat
pie at the lunch counters. When you
See a boy or man take the piece in both
hands and devour it as rapidly as pos
sible, or girl jab it into her mouth
with a knife, you may be sure
they are passionately fond Of
that kind of top finishing, or,
if circumstances were favorable
would make meal of pie. Men have
made pie baking their only business
and gotten rich out of it. Wilmington.
VT. has produced race OF bakers
in.that line-a census of the pie bakers
in New York and Brooklyn being taken
recently showed that 40 per cent Of them
;came from Wilmington. One man esti-
mated that he had baked and sold 81,
600, 900 pies In thirty-eight years. He
commenced the business in Cherry
street. New York. His wife baked them
and he commenced to sell them from a
basket. His uncle was-the first man to
make 1t an exclusive business to bake
and sell pies. 1t is stated that in the
wear 1881 one man in Cincinnati cleared
$4,000 from the sale of small pies.
Sundays and holidays are the days of
the greatest pie consumption. No pic
nic party is completely equipped with
out we'll laden pie basket.