The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-01-25
THE PUMPKIN PIE SEASON.
Recurs with Autumn-Popularity of Different
Sorts of Pastry.
Sorts Of Pastry.

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marked her pies so that she would
know what they were without cutting
| them. She put T on each. When
askedwhat it meant she replied:
We'll. on this it means IT'S mince."
and on the other, Taint mince." She
must have had guessing match
speaking of country ways said
another, can any OF you match this?
1t was in little town in Vermont at
the village hosiery. where we spent
the night while on a walking trip. At
breakfast the landlords daughter
served as waitress She brought in
some pancakes. and one of the party.
who saw that they were not we'll
enough done to be palatable, sent them
back to the kitchen to get some that
were better done. In moment the
girl returned and slapped the plate
with its pale burden down on the ia
| BILE and exclaimed: 'Them's the dun
dest they be- Every word of the SEN
tence save the the" is wrong gram
nlatically.'
me-" rejoined the first speaker. of the
man who was telling how many uses
could be made of the fruit of the APP
pie tree He enumerated baked apples,
apple pies. apple tarts. apple dump
lngs, sweet cider, hard cider. apple
jack. vinegar. and apple toddy. Then
listener told him he had failed to
mention the most important product
of the apple tree. especially to boys.
What is it, he remarked. Stomach
ache was the reply
While the apple may be the best
fruit of tree" said the MATERIAL
fact man, for the production of pies
and pastry l think there is nothing
like the pumpkin to make a tasty pie
in the days before and after Thanks
giving. This is fruit Of the melon or
squash family, and its name seems to
be simply change of form from pum-
piOn, or pompion, which is itself an
other OF pepon, from the Greek wore
for a kind OF melon, which is believed
to be connected with the Sanscrit
word for something to cook. The In
dams of this country are believed to
have had pumpkins as we'll as Indian
corn before the whites came here, but
they were known in Europe before the
Is century. and may have been taken
there from Asia. The common pump
kin which is grown so plentifully in
cOrnfields in this latitude. is vine
which grows to the length of 20 or %
feet often. and produces great gourd-
like fruit. oblong. with flattened ends,
and weighing from ten to 40 or even
| so pounds apieces. There is fleshy
layer, an inch or two in thickness, I'M
der the rough rind and this is the ed
ible portion. Within is space con-
| tanning less solid substance and the
| seeds. often scores in number. which
are about an inch long and half as
wide. being fiat ovals. with the flesh
encased in hard shell. They are cat
! en- by squirrels. mice, etc The name
pumpkin seed is applied to the COM
mon sunfish found in small streams.
| also called solloquially the tobacco box
The name is also applied to certain
forms of boats from their shape.
The man with memory said: The
| name of the pumpkin is connected in
my mind with the old nursery rhyme:
Peter, Peter. pumpkin eater,
Had wife and couldn't keep her.
| He put her in pumpkin shell.
And there he kept her very we'll.
THE pumpkin shell, suppose, is
what is left after the soft, spongy
part with the seeds, is taken from the
interior of the ripened pumpkin. Boys
use small Cnes. followed out, for jack
| o'-lanterns, cutting the semblance Of
face on one side and placing can
die in the interior"
Il suppose none Of you," said an an
tiquarian, who had been listening. "can
tell what the ancient oath, BY cock
and pie comes from. Literally trans
lated from early English. it means BY
God and the daily service book the
word pie as there used referring to
the service directory for the canoni-f
cal hours and calendar in use in Eng
land in the days before the Reforma-
ton, when Henry VIII became head
Of the Anglican church 1t was also
spelled pye The word pie. plural pice.
IS the name of an Anglo-Indian coin.
The verb to pi. sometimes spelled pie.
is we'll known in printing offices. as de-
scribing the jumbling or confusing OF
types so that they cannot be used UNI
ii, mt in order pioDlant is a COM
mont name 70 rthe garden rhubarb.'
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