The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-07-14
THE PIE BUSINESS.
1,s Seasons Much Extended-The MOST
Popular Winter Pie.

Annually in the winter season mi
o,o sold AT wholesale many tnous". ~
~ some kinds of pies at less tnan n NJ,
cost of production, and these az IN
stale MES or anything OF that soil, os ra
The best freshly made stock. o !rl a.
MES into whose composition niia a
eggs enter largely, materials tha, Coz soo'
much more in winter thah NJ vthe, 81
sons, so that these pies are tne esa ma ",a.
tor;als are sufficiently cheaper 10 en-
ahle tbe pie baker to even Things up
and oet some net profit on these pies
taking the year through. >, o,nd
The great standard all'year'arouhu
nie Il annie, for which fresh materlais
can be had at all times, elther from VIZ
now crops or from storage, Fresh appIe
ME NAV be had and ii is in demand ~
all times. aomond for
mince and pumpkin pies around the
boi;days, and these pies sell well the
winter through: but the winter PIE no"
most in demand is cocoanut'
Fifty years ago cocoanut PIE was
home luxury made by. housewives as
something extra; within tine last ~
wears il has come to be 2 great stahu,
ard pie, turned out by all BAKERS, anu
while il is made at all seasons IL IS no"
the most popular winter PIE.
The most popular pies in summer are
those made from fresh fruits, and the
season for these has in comparatively
recent wears been largely extended AT
both ends by the cultivation IN various
parts of the country of CARRIER crops
and by storage.
The first fresh fruit pie is strawberry,
which now comes much earlier than
formerly. The first strawberries are
extensive to the pie baker, but ne gets
them as soon as he can get enough 10
supply all his customers at once. NO
big pie bakery would put out new PIE
till il could get stock enough to start
all its customers with il on the same
day. It wouldn I do TO send the PIE 10
some and not to others. Great quantl'
ties of early Strawberries are used IN
pie making: if the pie baker should
when strawberries first come north'
take enough TO fill his requirements he
would clean out the market and leave
none for other consumers, and then, too,
the price would be prohibitive. But the
pie eater nowadays gets fresh straw
berry pie very early.
Following along through the season,
all made from fresh fruits, come black
berry pie. cherry pie. huckleberry pie,
and peach pie. all with their seasons
much longer than they used TO be. In
old times, for instance, when the pick
ing of huckleberries ceased, fresh
huckleberrv pies went out. but now
are carried fresh in stor.
age for two or three months beyond
their producing season. with the fresh
huckleberry pie season by that much
Fresh peaches. the fruit fresh from
the trees, are now brought TO market a
month earlier than formerly. and so
the fresh fruit peach pie season now |
starts much earlier than it did; and |
peaches are now carried for a consider.
able period in storage after the close of |
the crop season so that fresh peach |
pies are now to be had through a much |
longer season than they once. were.
While some pies made from fresh |
fruits can be had later and while the |
apple is ALWAYS a standard pie, the win
ter pie season begins about Oct !.
when people turn again to mince and |
and coeoanut.
Pie is now more popular than ever |
and more largely consumed and there |
are great and long established pie bak-
cries turning out pies in enormous num-
bers that take much pride in up.to.date
methods and in the wholesomeness of |
heir produce.-New York Sun.