Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-24

forms, often formed part of the break fast, which had to be substantial; for these people had big and a hard days work before them.
 A few bits of flakes out of a cay package would have been of little use to stay the puritanical stomach against the labor of blowing stubborn cleaning uo rocky land, and what not.
 At the same time the women were looking we'll to the ways of their households, washing, polishing brass flax, weaving carpets, or sewing and traiding rugs. making clothing for every member of the household, pul- verizing corn, getting out the years supply of candles, soap. etc, picking and drying peppers, apples, herbs, ct al. They had no bakers to depend upon. no laundryman, no srocere. no delicatessen stores, no drygoods shops, except the few which had for sale inn ported goods at, in many cases, al- most prohibitive prices. Anyway, in early times and in later timss, too, women worked from dawn to dusfs.
 Now. under such conditions the bit of sweets in the shape of fried cake or even pie-was just the element required to top off the colonial break fast.
 fn thess days of shameful multi nlieation of hospitals and sanitariunss, it always make me laugh to hear mod ern. hygienic (sic) house-keepers sneer at the unhealthy old days of the past! Were they unhealthy? Visit any rural burying- ground. and read the tomb stones! Note how Benjamin Jones died in his 97th year; and see on eithe,. side of his simple slab Freelove, his first wife, removed by a tender Provi- dence when she was S7, and Desire. his second mate, cut off in the midst of her years, at 79 and maybe Sally, his third affinity, gathered to her fathers, at e2! They were not fash ionable, those early and primitive had no appendicitis CT heart failure from inordinate coffee drinking, Cor other drinking) or excessive candy munching, or lack of exercise, to make angels of them, at 40 or even earlier!
 Human nature ia much the same in all generations. And the man whose forsooth, he ate pie and doughnuts. fancies himself superior when he bolts his modern paste board package break fast, varied with 8 melon, thin toast and cup of strong coffee. So. too. his womenfolks sheer at the menus of great days. But-just before noon said man grows an all- gone feeling; and will slide for drug store, to get some piek-me-up in the shape of milk shake or college ice. The women9will think the lunch hour dreadfully far away, and will dip into their candy boxes, or nfbble a coolsy. It's the old prfnciple-hunanity craves sweets; sugar creates energy; and when our. -forbears topped with a. big, fat. puffy cruller, they but acted on instinct.
 ..2. k-I A of New Orleans eruIIsrs with the holes" and succeeded in getting hold of this, a good one:
 One cup milk, one cup sugar. 8 eggs, heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, sifted in the flour, and a little salt and nutmeg. Add flour to make them as soft as you can well handle. Beat yokes and whites of eggs separately; add the whites of the GEES the last thing after the four has been added And now as to nhinee pie! A friend
 said to, me this summer, indicating a comprehensive article on the much | talked-of Twilight Sleep in a lead ing magazine, '1 am always interested in the career of Mary Blank, who has been sent to Germany to investigate ! this subject for this magazine, because when girl she always wanted just | a piece of mince pie for her lunch : Claimed that it contained the elements | needed for a capital lunch, u has certainly given her both health and | brains! I suppose it never hurt her. because she didn't make the mistake most Of us do-of mixing it with other foodi
 ''One day I found out from Miss | Blanks mother just how she made l her nince pie; and I'll show you her recfpei"
 So she did; and this is what gave | that successful writer portion of her l inspiration:
 One bowl meat. bowls chopped ap- pies, one pint of cider, one-half pint