The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-06-17
"APPLE PIE ORDER"
Mr.. GWlLLPLlLLBLY ARISES TO
QUESTION OF lNFoRMATIoN.
Wants to Know the Origin Of This
Familiar Phrase-lncidentally He
Chants Praises Of the
Real Pie.

II know" said Mr.. Gwillplillbly,
"this is pretty hot weather to be ask
ing questions, but I would like it if
somebody would tell. me the origin Of
the phrase in apple pie order,' mean
ing, 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. It originated in New
England, no doubt; this use Of pie as
a basis of comparison seems clearly
to indicate that; but how did apple
pie come thus to be set up as the
symbol of superior excellence?
Il suppose it was partly because of
apple pies priority of invention, for
imagine it will be conceded that apple
was the first pie; but l suppose that
Its continued use in this manner has
been due to the apple pies unbrokenly
continued pre-eminence in all good pie
qualities. 1t could not have been long
after the invention of apple pie be-
fore pumpkin pie was introduced, and
mtnce is certainly an old time pie, and
80 likewise Is cranberry; and in apple
pie order certainly could not at once
have become so firmly %intrenched
among the contemporaneous native
New England forms of speech as to
preclude the possibility of it's 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.
But neither of them ever did, which
shows to my mind incidentally not
only the clearheadedness and correct
taste of those sagacious early inven-
tors OF pie but as well the perspicuity
OF their succeeding generations. In
apple pie order still stands, as indeed
1t should; for of all pies apple pie is
undoubtedly the best, and if we are
to have a pie figure to denote excel
lence that pie should be apple pie.
h. AS 1t is made in New England
homes by New England housewives
truly there is no pie like apple pie
such as this, with a pie crust that
somehow seems never to be equaled
IN h production Of any other kitchen
n with contents of SURPRISING pie
Joy, this apple pie when it has finally
been made ready for eating.
For this pie, the real apple pie of
New England, goes through a final
clarifying process after ii 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 deftly that it is
never broken nor even it's edges
marred, and when this delightful disk
OF crust has been thus removed they
spread around on the surface of the
pies filling a little fine butter, and
some people sprinkle in a little grated
nutmeg-though l can't say 1 fancy
the nutmeg-and now they add sugar.
n now you replace the top crust,
You see the idea of adding the sugar
after the pie is baked? With at least
some of the sweetening left to be add
ed 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 o delightful; but as
for myself I 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 a work Of
love and pride, to be found only in
homes and to be had and enjoyed at
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 still
so made, and though you may think
the weather too hot to discuss it, that
such apple pie should have been
coined into a phrase signifying every
thing that is good is to me no wonder.
1t Is In this pies simple excellence, I
believe, that we find the origin of in
apple pie order.,"