Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-20
APPLES LATE THIS YEAR.
Bakers Have Not fut the Right Kind In
10 Pies, But They Will be on the Market


At this time of year the fancy of the
average experienced American citizen
lightly turns to thoughts of apple pie, for
it is now that that most distinctively Am
erican and most tendery remembered and
eagerly expected of all the great Ameri-
can pies is due. Therefore there has been
a sadness and self-searching among the
pie eaters OF the great cities, for the APP
pie pie has lost is flavor, says the New
York Times. The complaint has been gen.
eral. Men and women were sadly reticent
at first, fearing that they had changed,
that their powers of enjoyment were wan
ing. Try as they might they could not
find anywhere the flavor they once knew
in the apple pie, homemade or shop bak-
ed, up town or down town. There were
signs at the enforced thought that one
more bright spot had departed. that an
other source of happiness known to youth
was gone forever.
Rut when such of the children as have
reached years of pie discrimination began
TO complain, the elders ventured to talk
and exchange opinions, and the conclusion
was reached that there is something
wrong with the apples. 1t was found that
no matter how conscientiously the old re-
cipes were adhered to in matters of slic-
ing, splicing, sweetening,and cooking, no
matter how faultess and white and flaky
the pastry might be, the flavor was not
there, and that the apples must be to
blame.
This conclusion was found to be correct
by reporter who yesterday inquired in
the produce district along Washington
street.
Apples are all late" said the dealers
with one voice. Good pie apples are just
now coming in"
| What are they?"
"Astraghan and Red Astraghans and
Early Harvest. What few we have been
getting very windfals, without flavor and
really lit for nothing. OF course they
1 found a sale for there are people who
get wild about apple pies this time of year
and insist on buying anything that looks
like a pie apple. But the real good ones
are just coming in now. They are too eX-
pensive yet for the retailers to handle,
but the supply will be abundant in two
weeks"
Meantime. the bakers are using the
canned apples-a special pie apple is cali
ned--just as in the winter Some are even
using the evaporatcd apple. But that will
soon be over. After the Astraghans and
the Early Harvest the Staten Island and
the Rockland county summer pippin Will
be maturcd enough for pies. The supply
is late but it promises to be abundant"
/ So it seems that the lovers of old-fash-
toned apple pies may take comfort. BY
next week there will be an abundance of
the fruit-hard, sour, and juicy. 1t is
swinging with the limbs of a thousand
breezy orchards now, drawing from the
sunshine and dew just the proped flavor
that fingers in the memory from years
ago. 1t will come in presently to be
sliced and spiced and baked, and to
put to shame the apples of town and win
ter which have been man-handled and
manufactured and manipulated and work
ed with until they have lost all their pow
err TO stimulate in the saivary glands all
suggestion of the wide fields and country
air and wind-swept summer kitchens and
busy hands and long aprons and delicious
results that The experienced American
citizen expects in his apple pies at this
season.