Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-02
Machine Made Pies.

The largest pie factory in New Eng
land, without doubt, is located in
Boston, says the Hartford Post. Not
only is this bakery on patriotic soil,
but it occupies in part an old church
building. In this factory the average
is 10, 900 pies day and the varieties
are many. That they are made with
great rnpidity goes without saying
The manufacture consists chiefly of
four processes preparing the filling,
making the crust, filing the pies and
baking them. IL mince filling is be-
ing made the meat is first selected and
then cooked in steam jaclseted cop
per kettle that will hold barrel. 1t is
then chopped by machine that knows
its business and then mixed with tho
apple, beef suet, currants, citron,
spices and mace. When the expert
mixer gets them NIL mixed, by APP
proved rules for mixing, but never
getting mixed himself, this filling goes
to the filler.
Meanwhile another set of mon have
prepared the crust. A hugo trough is
partly filled with flour and lard,
shortening" is worked into it by h
fellow dressed in white, with hair pow
dered and arms bare. This flour is
next changed to doughlike consis-
tency by adding water rs near the
freezing temperature rs possible to
make it hakey and mixing it with tho
hands.
When the batch is ready it is taken
to the men who roll it out and mt IL
on the tin plates. The dizziness and
and q',ickness with which this is done
throws into shade the work of light
ming change artist. Then the pic is
filed, and this too is o GLOW operation.
A long-handled tin dipper, holding
Just enough to charge pie, is seized
in one hand by the operator and pic
in the other. With dcxterous dip into
the barrel of filling and twist of the
arm to lift and to invert the dipper
over the pie til, work is done.
Another set of men in white put on
the covers and then the pie goes to the
oven, which is the marvel. Quite
likely its like suggested the Ferris
wheel Mt the Worlds Fair, for that fol-
lows its principles of construction
quite closely.
1t is arranged SO that big wheel at
least twelve feet long and sixteen in
diameter is suspended by nm axle in n
big oven, under which is II glowing
fire. Hung from the rims of this
wheel Mt equal distances from each
other are eight iron platforms upon
which pies ne plnced. Such is the
manner Of suspension that they always
remain horizontal. This wheel is re-
volved by power. One of these plat
forms is before the opening in the
oven, which opening is ms large rs the
wheel itself.
The attendants cover this platform
with pies and the wheel is turned until
the next comes into view, which is then
filled and so on until the eight have
been supplied. The next turn brings
into view the first lot put in and they
are ready to take out. They are re-
moved and the platform filled again
The wheel turns and another baked
lot il presented, and so it goes on day
after day, one thousand an hour TAX
ing their course over this pit of fire.
All kinds, rs we'll as all sizes, of pies
are made. The smallest sell for six
cents each and the largest for fifty.
The latter are oblong in shape, very
thick and large enough in area to If.
ford ut least dozen big cuts.