Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-12-02
In Hpple-pie Order


Il know, said Mr.. Gwillplillbly..
| that it grows tiresome with me al
ways asking questions, but l would.
like it if somebody would tell me the
origin of the phrase in apple-pie or
DER meaning, as you know. that the
thing or place so characterized is in
the very slickest and trimmest sort Of
shape. homely, perhaps. but attractive
and wholesome. 1t originated in
New England, no doubt; this use Of
pie as basis of comparison seems
clearly to indicate that; but how did
apple pie thus come to be set up as
the symbol of superior excellence?
Il suppose it was partly because
of apple pies priority of invention,
for I imagine it will be conceded that
apple was the first pie; but suppose
that its continued use in this manner
has been due to the apple pies un-
brokenly continued prominence in.
all good pie qualities.
1T could not have been long after
the invention of apple pie before
pumpkin pie was introduced, and
mince is certainly an old time pie,
and so likewise is cranberry, and in
apple pie order certainly could not at
once have become so firmly intrench-
ed among the contemporaneous native
New England forms of speech as to
preclude the possibility of its being
supplanted by in pumpkin pie order,
or in mince pie ORDER if these not
much liked productions of pilgrim in
genuity had either of them displaced
apple pie from the highest pinnacle OF
popular esteem.
Apple Pie Best.
"But neither of them ever did,
which shows, to my mind, incidentally
mot only the clear-headedness and
correct taste of those sagacicus early
inventors of pie, but as well the pers-
picuity their succeeding genera
lions. In apple pie order still stands,
as indeed it should, for of all pies
apple pie is undoubtedly the best, and
if we are to have pie figure to de-
note excellence that the pie should
be apple pie.
CAS- it is made in New England
homes by New England housewives
truly there is no pie like apple pie
such as this, with pie crust that
somehow seems never to be equalled
in the production of any other kitchen
and with contents of SURPRISING pie
joy, this apple pie when it has finally
haon made rpadv for aatin0
For this pie, the real pie of New
England, goes through a final glorify-
ing process after it has been baked.
When they have taken the pie from
the oven and placed it on the kitchen
table they deity remove the top crust
so deity that it is never broken nor
even its edges married, and when this
delightful disk of crust has been re-
moved they spread around on
the surface of the pies filling little
fine butter, and some people sprinkle
a little grated nutmeg -though I can't
say I fancy the nutmeg-and now
they add sugar, and now you replace
the top crust You see the idea of adj
ding the sugar after the pie is baked?
With at least some of the sweetening
left to be added now you do not have
a thoroughly sweetened pie, but you
get still the keen taste of the apple,
and you get the sweetening too, but
you blend these delightfully."- in the
eating.
"And thus prepared the apple pie is
ready to eat And it may be eaten
hot, and in that condition there are
few things more delightful; but as
for myself / prefer this pie just at
the moment when it has first got cool
.'Of course, it will be understood
that the apple pie in this form is
work of love and pride, to be found
only in homes and to be had and en-
joyed as its very best only where one.
can get home to eat it, But there are
New England homes and some else
where, | hope, where apple pie is
so made, and though you may think
the weather too hot to discuss it, that
such apple pie should have been
coined into phrase signifying every
thing that is good is to me no wonder.
1t is in this pies simple excellence, I
believee, that we find the origin Of I'm
apple pie order
The Giant SunfIowers of Kansas.
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