The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-16
PALATE T|CKLERS
OF PENNSYLVANIA
Pie is of Prime Necessity and
of Infinite Variety and
Various Kinds.

AT my first meal at the little Pennsyl-
vania Dutch inn over in Berks county,
where 1 happened to be one day last sum
mer," said New Yorker. Il asked the
Iosy-cheeled, black-eyed dining room girl
/ for another baked potato.
| To bodatiss ISIS ALL" said she with a
smile and shake of her head
| ." ALP said I. "An what?
AL said the girl, impatiently, and
with a suspicion of contempt in her
| tone, To bodatiss ISIS all
| "A native with the whiskers of a patri-
arch came to my rescue.
| She means ter halnt no more yit
! alretty,' said he, Ter all
| And thus / learned that the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch never say that anything is
! gone If the bar runs out of beer the
J beer is all When the sauerkraut barrel
/ is empty the kraUt is all But there is
| That is pie If 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
and his host would at once become
strained.
! But l found that the necessity for
tavern or farmhouse. At a Pennsylvania
Dutch inn the waiter doesn't disturb your
| tympanum with:
/ " 'Minshapplepire puCdn2'
| She fetches in the pie at the proper
time and places it before You. Not only
pie. but a whole pie. And often not
!
whole pies, all of different kinds and.
each kind masterpiece of the piemak-
ing 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 snitz pie.
Dissipation in Berks.
| ''Snitz is dried apples Snitz means
the cutting OF apples into small pieces for
drying. and snitZ parties, so l learned.
| were among the social designations of
| the Pennsylvania Dutch girls and boys at
apple time. A favorite epicurean delight
in rural pennsylvania Dutchdom is SnitZ
and knep, combination of dried apples,
| fat pork and dumpings, all cooked to-
! first thought strike a vegetarian as just
the thing to go TO bed with if he had set
his mind on gentle daliiance with hte
drowsy god, but it isn't so much of an
alder and abetter of nightmare it
would seem. so I was told by those who
Were brought up TO dare it Yet, SO they
any too little for one good man to eat,
especially if he irrigated it, as is some
what the wont. with tumbler or two of
last years cider.
As to pie again. no matter how many
pies there may be on the table, every
guest is expected to help himself to each
one. his inclination and capacity per-
nit him. There is always enough.
Il learned about some more pleasing
Pennsylvania Dutch things while ! was
in Berks county SchmierkaSe has all
seasons for it's own with them. but it is
only in the fall that Sauerkraut and LODI
waerrick get their work in. In the fall.
too metzelsup Is on the circuit, and many
rise up and clutch Il. Then likewise do
rOlachizz aud pahnhoss make popular ap-
peal.
''Lodwaerrick is apples and cider boiled
together until there is no more cider left
and the apples have become a savory pulp
the color of a mahogany bureau. In
l.
Your grocer sells you what bears the
brand of apple butter. Maybe that's what
it is. but you will never think so again
after eating lOdwaerrick.
Every well regulated Pennsylvania
Dutch farmer kills at least two fat pigs
each fall for his own family use. The
butchering is a great affair, and neigh
Dor here and there will join in and help.
When the hogs are killed. dressed and
cut up, certain portions are laid aside for
gifts to Door widows in the neighborhooI.
This is distributed with a liberal hand.
and is called the metZelsup. The farmer
who forgets the metzelsup is looked upon
as one for whom perdition yawns-
Made in Quantities.
IF there is family in Berks county
that doesn't put down its barrel of Sauer-
kraut in the fail then that family must
have just moved in from some distant
part of the country. Every one of the
Pennsylvania Dutch counties makes great
quantities of sauerkraut every fall but
as any three of the others
! From the middle of October until the
same time in November, as my patri-
archal friend at the inn table was not
backward in informing me. but little else
occupies the household mind The house
wife at the head of an establishment that
requires thousands a year to support il
has the same recipe for putting down
| sauerkraut that ner washwoman has, and
when the kraut is ripe it doesn't smell q
bit better for its more aristocratic sur
rOundings.
Some Pennsylvania Dutch families hire
their cabbage cut, but no such pride car
be felt by the housewife who doesn't cut
her own as the one who does cut hel
own can boast. But though the cabbage
for the family kraut may have been hired
out the work of making the kraut mus
be that for the housewife alone, bt
she in high or humble life They boast
that no family in Berks county trans
into sauerkraut every fall, and some
families would call that season lost who's
last descending sun saw less than III
cabbage heads converted into sauerkrau
! for its own use
tripe and beef built up in CONSECUTIVE,
: LAYERS of each until il has come to a rol
big enough to suit. and then 1t is mildly
!. picked and put away for winter use. j
is served sliced up thin, cold. and il !:
fails to make generously of head chess
n as one of the popular by-proGucts of thu
| pig and IN the liquor that comes from
the boiling OF the pig head is worked
| buckwheat flour and cornmeal until /
comes to the desired consistency Thu
cools into solid mass and is called palm
boss. Sliced and fried il is pronounced
a particularly pleasing morssl to the ma
tive ashington Post.