The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-05-14
Pie FOX BREAKFAST.
Not the Worst Thing in the Wor'c'
Saws a Man Who Has Tried It.

Not the Worst Thing in the Wor'o'
Says a Man Who Has Tried IT,
pie for breakfast" is the one I'M
failing reproach that is hurled at ne"
England when the lowest OF outsiders
wishes to chuck odium. Take the WORD
of man who has tried it-there are
worse things for breakfast than pie
I'm free to admit" said he, tnas
never but once really experienced
pie for breakfast. BY that mean
perpetual pie-pie for every break
fast, not pie at a railroad station eat
ing house breakfast, but pie on the
breakfast table just the same as pui'
ter or sugar or bread.
That was some years ago. | spent
winter on job pretty far back IN
northern New England and boarded
at a comfortable little cottage IN a
four or five house settlement for some
months. wasn't really farmhouse,
though it had little patch OF ground.
1t was the home of an old lady and her
grown-up daughter. An older son
who supported the family worked IN
a factory in, a town some miles away
coming home for Sunday.
The old lady who took me in, liter
ally not figuratively, was the cook, and
she was some pie cook, not with
varied repertoire, so to speak, but ex-
cellent and prolific with what she did.
1t was winter then and the pies for
the most part were mince or apple,
but there were any number OF those.
! How she produced so many | can't
tell, for I'm sure ate pie day and
she and her daughter ate some, while
the son could get away with two or
three from Saturday to Monday.
you see, she knew what piece OF
pie was. A piece was a quarter, and
two pieces for dinner or even for
breakfast were no disgrace.
II never sat down at the table in
that house, breakfast, or any other
meal, but that there was at least one,
oftener two, pieces on the table, not
always whole pies, but enough and
with a large reserve to draw on
Furthermore most of the weekdays /
spent way back there was at work
so far from the house that carried
dinner pail, and did l ever fail to
find a piece of pie in it? / did not.
pie for breakfast is not the only
form of rural food that has been un-
Justly abused. I've known folks sheer
at steak that was first pounded tender
and then fried, but l know lots worse
things than round steak hammered
a while and then fried in butter, real
country butter, of course, and served
piping hot. At this little house of
course they didn't do their own
slaughtering as many of the farmers
did, but they bought outright quar-
ter of beef and half pig and kept
it down cellar, where 1t was cold
enough to keep anything.
ITO this day | am amazed at the
versatility of that pig. It's an old
joke about the Chicago stock yards
using everything but the squeak but
| still believe that in some of the
dishes / had-the head cheese or the
souse, maybe-that squeak was con-
cealed. But l learned that winter
that sweet pig pork'-sweet as op-
posed to SALTS good to eat in many
variations
I'm fact, of all the real country
things l had that winter none was
wasted on me. The one thing dread
ed was the weekly treat that the son
of the house brought home for Satur-
day night-oysters, canned or barrel
led oysters, from which later stew
was made. New York Sun.