The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-23
= : =, Machine Made Pes3

The largest pie factory in New Eng
land, without q doubt, is located in
Boston, says the Hartford Post. Not
only is th15 bakery on patriotic soil,
but it occupies in part an old church
building. In this factory the average
is 10000 pies day and the varieties
are many. That they are made with
grsst rapidity goes without saying.
The manufacture consists chiefly OF
four processes-preparing the filing,
making the crust, filing the pies and
baking them. If naince filing is be-
ing made the meat ia first selected and
then cooked in q steam-jacketed cop
per kettle that will hold a barrel. It Is
then chopped by machine that knows
its business and then mixed with the
apple, beef suet, currants, citron,
spices and mace. When the expert
mixer gets them all mixed, by ap'
proved rules for mixing, but never
getting mixed himself, this filing goef
to the filler.
Meanwhile another set of men have
prepared the crust. A huge trough is
partly filed with -four and lard,
'tshortening' is worked into it by a
fellow dressed in white, with hair pow.
dered and arms bare. This flour is
next changed to a doughlike consis.
tency by adding water as near the
freezing temperature as possible to
make it dakey and mixing it with the
hands.
When the batch is ready it is taken
to the men who roll it out and put it
on the tin plates. The deftness and
and q'lickness with which this is done
throws into shade the work of a light
ming change artist. Then the pie is
filed, and this too is no slow operation.
A long-handled tin dipper, holding
just enough to charge pie, is seized
in one hand by the operator and q pie
in the other. With dexterous dip into
the barrel Of filing and twist of the
arm to lift and to invert the dippe1
over the pie the 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 at 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 an axle in
big oven, under which is a glowing
fire. Hung from the rims of this
wheel at equal distances from each
other are eight iron platforms upon
which pies are placed. Such is the
manner of suspension that'they always
remain horizontal. This wheel is re.
7olved by power. One OF, these plat.
forms is before the opening in the
oven, which opening is as large as th'
Wheel itself.
The at., ndants cover this platform
With pies and the wheel is turned until
the next comes into view, which is then
filed 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 filed again.
The wheel turns and another baked
lot is presented, and SO it goes on day
after day, one thousand an hour tax
ing their course over this pit OF fire.
Ali kinds, as well 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 af'
ford at least dozen big cuts