The Democratic advocate., 1909-11-19
PENN'A DUTCH DISHES
THEY WERE MYSTERIES TO THE PALATE
OF A. NEW YORKER
But Win Tickle the Palate Of Any
Hungry Man or WOinan

AT my first meal at the little Penn
sylvania Dutch inn over in Berks
county where | happened to be one
day last summer" said New Yorker.
u asked the rosy checked, black eyed
dining room girl for another baked
potato
"Te bodatiss iss all. said she with
a smile and a shake OF her head.
ALP" said /. All whatg
All, said the girl impatiently, and
with suspicion OF contempt in her
tone. TIE bodatiss iss all"
"A native with the whiskers OF
patriarch came TO my rescue
She means ter haint no more yit
alretty,' said he. Ter ALL
Thus ! learned that the Pennsyl-
yania Dutch never say that anything
is gone II the bar runs out OF beer
the beer Is ALI When the sauerkraut
is empty the kraut is ALL. But there
is one thing, at least, that is never
all. That Is pie. II some thrifty
and hearty Dutch citizen should ever
ask for pie and word should come back
to him that the pie was ALI the
relations between him ana his host
would at once become strained.
But | found that the necessity fof
asking for pie seldom exists, either at
tavern or farmhouse. AT a Pennayl-
yanit Dutch ian the waiter doesn't
disturb your tympanum with:
'Minsrapplepire puddln7
she fetches in the pie at the proper
time and places II before you. Not
only pie, but a whole pie. and often
not only one whole pie, but three or
four whole pies. all OF different kinds.
and each kind a masterpiece Of the
pie making art The black eyed girl
with the rosy cheeks who knocked
me out BY telling me that the potatoes
were all placed four uncut pies on
the table soon afterward There was
cheese custard. gooseberry tart. a
sweet potato custard, and a anitz pie
"Snltz is dried apples. Snilz means
the cutting Of apples into small pieces
for drying, and snltz parties, 80 I
learned we're among the social diK-
sipations Of the Pennsylvania Dutch
girls and boys at apple time a favor
tie eplcurian delight Ia rural PennRyi-
yania Dutchdom is snitz and knep. a
combination of dried apples. Fat pork
and dumpllngE. all cooked together.
This for supper might not al FIRST
thought strike n vegetarian as Just the
thing % go TO bed With II he had set
hiE mind on gentle dalilAnce with the
drnwBy god, but II isn't 80 much OF an
alder and abetter of nightmare aa II
would seem. 40 ! was told by those
who were brought up TO dare II. Yet.
so they said. two good nizcd iishea of
# wasn't any too little for one good
man To eat. especially n ho irrigated
II. aa u somewhat thn wont, with q
tumbier or two Of iaat years cider.
Az 10 pie again no matter how
many plea there may be- on The table,
every guest IL expected 10 help him
self TO each. az his inclination and
capacity permit him There IL always
enough
II learned about some more pleasing
Pennsylvania Dutch things while /
was ia Berka county SchmIErkaHe
has all seasons for its own with them.
but II iE only In the fall that Eanor-
krau, and lodwaerrick gci their work
In. In the fall. too. metzelsup ia on
the circuit. and many rise up aud
clutch H. Then. likewise do rolachizz
and pahanhoas make popular appeal.
"Lodwaerrick Ia apples and cider
boiled together until there h no more
cider left and the apples have be-
come aayory pulp the color Of a ma.
hogany bureau In English the rcault
Ia called apple butter Your grocer
sells sou what bears the brand Of APP
pie butter Maybe that's what 81 ih.
but you will never think SO again sitter
eating lodwaerrick
Every well regulated Pennsyi-
yauia Dutch farmer kills nj least two
fat pigs each fall for hls own family
use. The butchering is q great affair
and "a neighbor here and there will
join In and help, when the hogs are
killed. dressed and cut up certain por-
tons are laid aside for those who help
ed In the killing and for gifts TO poor
widows In the neighborhood. This
is distributed with liberal hand and
Is called the metzelsup The farmer
who forgets the metzelsup n looked
upon as one for whom perdltIon
yawns.
III there In family IN Berks county
that doesn't put down It's barrel of
sauerkraut in the fall then that family
must have just moved la from some
distant part Of the country Every one
OF the Pennsylvania Dutch counties
makes great quantities OF sauerkrant
every fall. but Berks county claims 10
put down az much as any three OF
the others
From the middle OF October until
the same time In November, as my
patriarchal friend at the inn table was
not backward in informing me, but
little else than sauerkraut in the do
nestle supply occupies the household
mind. The housewife at the head Of
an establishment that requires thou
sands year to support II has the
same recipe for putting down sauer-
kraut that her washwoman has and
when her kraut is ripe It doesn't smell
bit better for IT'S more aristocratic
surroundings.
Some Pennsylvania Dutch families