New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15

The resent advance r. the wholesale price q
pes from three and a half cents TO four cents
each has aroused New-Yorkers who eat pies
baked by the wholesale The American Pie and
-skf-g Company. as a result Of the increase.
has suddenly been classed with its enemies by
The trust hating element, not because Of a fear
-hat The retail price of pie win be advanced
Cor e. would be difficult 70 raise the price % -
sixth ~ pie by a twelfth OF cent, but n a
general way. because pie eaters are tntraical TO
trusts. A rnar who eats pie cannot symPathize
with q trust If any kind His trust is all used
" ~ The pie. This situation naturally has
awakened deep interest IN trust methods OF
rle making and pie baking
a visit 70 one NJ the largest pie constructing
--z--s b. this City would make the average
housewife who T-i5ee herself I'm her baking
green with envy The maker IF old fashioned
domestic pies cannot easily conceive q system
rv which barrel of apples and barrel q
ecu- car. fzura -ivelr speaking. start at one
end ~ "a long bench and leave the other end q
thousand o- Jess finished pies. hut this system
is .- use En- al -he large rle bakeries.
The hiking force goes o- duty a. 10 o'clock
e. night DurluE rhe day E.-ls have been par
t-r and sTi-fre apples and pumpkins, and the
foreman has been spio.1E and sweetentng the
-~ ked fruit ~ r-inoe. the Custards and other
--e',a-ed filing which has also been cooked by
f-ez-7 in large stone s-er watts When the ha-
l-l-r 20 on 5a-- the frlrE is In place in front
rr --e great douehHoa-l En- tubs holding half
barrel each and The stewe5 apples In fun sized
barrels Az one end az the bench is great
stark rf -four near which stands pail o.
water t--- which "a saucer ~ baking powder has
lee. E--r=E -te dough mixer attacks this
rear and makes ll So deep depression. into
which -r- water iz poured. The e-a5arA-lenr
stirred r.-l the hands u1-I "a thick pasty
dough has been formed This as showed alor-
urtu a ta- hea- .s formed ar The mixers right.
ard The k-e-s.-. "a sarv young fellow working
~--tE an instrument resembling plasterer's
r-o0e- r--s or large masses and rolls tEetn
-rrL che mixing .e completed and then chops
-he- lr-0 chunks cr suitable sizes for forming
bottom c-us-s. The men beyond roll the boz
tom crus-s and place them in The pans, which
are arranged .r large wooden trays. heaped one
upon another b. stacks as tail as "a man. Inc
stacks ri -rays ere tlel hauled 70 the filler 1y
means of "a hook inserted i1 "a ring IN the truck
a- The bottom.
The pies whether ten thousand or fifteen
thousand night are baked. are al filed by
one man. with q Ionr-hau6Ied cup similar 10
--at used iD dipping uilk from a can. he stands
oFe- tub % steved pumpkin. uince or custard
time is required 70 bring the trays 10 MS side
and r11t of another 20 take them away. He
works Ike aurorztcn. q filed pie resulting
from every drop and rise ~ his two hands.
Nearly hundred pies minute looks like an
possibility. but he sends them 10 the men
H1o put on The top crlsts and the meringues at
mat rate fer many minutes an p stretch. Re
mas by actual test. put half barrel % mince-
meat into pies Within ten minutes.
The flled p.es 90 into the big wooden trays
70 the men who cover them with the top crust.
OF who put the reri-gue "a with a conical
shaped canvas bag open a. the smaller end. out
q which they squeeze che fr5-tlg on the fancy
pes The fancy pies and ;he plain ones 90 not
come together again untii they meet in The de-
hPery wagon about O'Clock in the morning.
The TOP crust pies 60 n the drawplate overs.
and the pumpkins CrTlards. meringues srd
lSrts . The % -s- t-sEione- c~-s vl.e-- ley
are handed with ions. slender shorels- cut n
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