The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-11-25

Marjoram, slipped off the Stakes, and
chop them small and beat them, then
mix them and beat them altogether and
then fry them like froiz. After it is
fryed, let it stand til it be cold, then
fill your Pye. Take sliced Apples, thinne
rounde-ways, and lay a row of the Froiz
and layer of Apples, with Currans be-
twixt the layer while your Pye is fitted
and put in good deal of sweet butter
before you close it, when the Pye is
baked take sixteen yelks Of Eggs, some
White Wine Or Vergis, and make a
Caudle of this but not too Thiclze, cut
up the Lid and put it i'll, stir them well
together whilst the Eggs and Pumpions
be not perceived and so serve it up
Probably it was good, but there was
mighty little ''pumpion'' to the ''pye''
and good deal of everything else in
the shop. Sixteen eggs in a pie when
they are selling at eight for quarter
will scare out a good many thrifty
housewives of today.
They were pretty heavy drinkers at
first, but very early it began to be hard
lines for habitual drunkards. They had
to sit in the stocks, lost their votes and
had a great sd" made of "redd" cloth
hung around their necks or sewed on
their clothes.
The recipes for fancy drinks were in
tolerably long and full Of all the spices
in their shops and all the herbs of their
gardens Their simpler ones were rath-
er messy things, one would think. Here
is Landlord Mays recipe for flip:
'Mix four pounds Of sugar, four eggs
and pint of cream, and let it stand for
two days. Fill quart mug thirds
full of beer, put therein four great
spoonfuls of the compound. Then thrust
into the mixture hot loggerhead and
add a gill of rum
A popular drink in Salem was ''whis-
tlebelly vengeance''-charming name!
It was made of sour household beer
simmered in kettle, sweetened with
molasses, filed with brown bread
crumbs and drunk hot.
For medicines the old Puritans had
the awfulest messes. Sow bugs and
roses, and pounded coral, and toads
caught in March and burned to char,
and ambergris were some of the drugs.
Of course they were bled and physicked
to the last degree. They used to make
up parties or classes and go to a retreat,
where they would all be inoculated for
smallpox-not vaccinated, but inocu.
lated with the real disease. There they
"broke OUT together, had the fever to-
gether, sweat together, scaled off to-
gether, and many love affair sprang
up amid such highly unromantic Cir
cumstances.
The greatest Of all trials, one would
think, was the way the neighbors all
got into the sickroom and prayed all
day long. 1t was no good the poor
badgered creature telling them to hold
their tongues and to let him alone.
They kept at him till he told them to
pray, and they fairly hectored him into
heaven.
But they had glorious times at fu-
nerals. ehey must have all got tight as
drums from the amount of liquor they
drank. Funeral odes were about the only
punning poetry the Puritans wrote
They had no prayers or sermons-just
put the man into the ground with great
pomp. Everybody had to have gloves,
and rings were often given away by the
family of the deceased. They had such
lovely things on them as
Prepared be
To follow me.
DR.. Buxton of Salem left when he
died quart mug full of rings he had
''made, as the thrifty phrase was, by
going to funerals.
Strangest of all, in New England, the
land of rocks, where they plant fields
with shotgunS and the sleeps noses
have to be ground SO that they can nib
BILE the grass between the pebbles, they
used to import the gravestones from old
England
And these were the folks who invent
ed Thanksgiving day.