Connecticut western news., 1897-11-25

Mnr1oram, slipped of the Stakes, and chop them small and beat thcm, then mix them and beat them altogether and put in as much Sugar as you think fit. then fry them like froiz After it is Eryed, let it stand til 1t bo cold, then all your Pye. Take sliced Apples, thinns rounde-ways. and lay a row of tho Froiz and layer of Apples, with Currans be- twixt the layer while your pye is fitted md put in a good deal of sweet butter before you close 1t, whom the Pye Is baked take sixteen yelks of Eggs some White Wine or yergis and make a Candle of this but not too Thioke, cut up tho Lid and put it in, stir them we'll together whilst tho Eggs and Pumpions be not perceived and 90 serve 1t up. !"
 Probably 1t was good. but there was mighty little ''pumpion" 10 the "pye" and good deal of everything else ip the shop Sixteen eggs in n pie when they are selling at eight for quarter will scare out good many thrifty housewives of today.
 They were pretty heavy drinkers At
 irst, but very early 1t began to be hard lines for habitual drunkArds They had to sit in tbe stocks lost their votes and had great ID" 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 onos were rnth. or 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 1t stand for two days. Fill quart mug two-thirds full of beer. put therein four great spoonfuls of the compound. Then thrust into the mixture hot loggerhesd and add gill of rum"
 A popular drink in Salem was ''whis- tlebelly vengeance namsi
 1t was made of sour household beer simmered in a kettle. swectened with molasses. filled with brown bread crumbs and drunk hot
 For medicines tho old Puritnns had he awfulest messes Sow bugs and roses, and pounded coral, and toads caught in March and burned to . char. and ambergris were some of the drug& Of course they wero bled and physcked to the last degree They used to make up parties or classes and go to retreat.
 where they would all bc inoculated for smallpox-not vaocinated. but inocu- lated with the real disease. There they "hroke out" together, had the fever to- gether, sweat together. scaled off to- gether, and many love affair spranH up amid such highly unromantic cir- cumstanoes.
 The greatest of all trials one would think. was the way the neighbors all got into the siclxroom and prayed all day long. It was no good the poor badgered creature telling them to hold their tongues and to let him xiones They kept at him till he told them to pray, and they fairly hcctored him into heaven.
 But they had glorious times at fu- nerals They must have all got tight ss drums from the amount of liquor they drank. Funeral odes were about the only punning poetry the Puritans wrote They lsad no prayers or scrmons-juss 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 deoeascds They had such lovely things on them As- Prepared be
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 Dr. Buxton of Salem left when he died quart rug 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 shesp's noses have to be ground SO that they can nib ble the grass between the pebbles, they used to import the gravcstones from old England.
 And these were the folks who invent cd Thanksgiving day.
 Thanksgiving Tn Britain