Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-11-23
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"srr.D TIE rLow."


Thursday will be Thanksgiving anC
farmers always celebrate this day nc
matter what the season has brought
forth. They are good sports enough te
eat heartily on this day even II grass
hoppers had eaten up the hay, Colorado
beetles destroyed the potatoes or rail
road worms ruined the apples. The one
thing farmer objects 10 10 to fast. BE
won't do 1t voluntarily. His Pilgrim
forebears bad to fast and be 10 willing
to follow suit II obliged TO-; but not foI
fun. He would rather fight. That Il
probably why the legislature changed
Fast Day for Patriotic Day. Feasting
not fasting is his long suit.
Thanksgiving 10 natural as we'll as Q
traditional holiday. This is the time OF
year when the farmer has gathered bis
crops, killed his hogs and his poultry,
and II ever Q man was prepared to feast,
be is the gent. OF course with packing
establishments and cold storage plants,
this condition is not 80 prominent az II
once was, when farmers filed the barns
and cellars for six months siege, and
began the siege with full stomach on
Thanksgiving Day.
Not only did they have the plain mate.
rials for feast but the "fxins" az we'll
or II they did not have them, they
bought them just for Thanksgiving.
There are several noted dishes that have
come down to rs, and among them none
more noted than mince pie. With hus.
bands, SONS and lovers reared In the open
air and consequently with. stomaohs that
can digest board nails, the women folk
try in this pie to see how much they can
stand and live through 1t. This is not
. modern pastime with the women. II
has extended back to the time the Pill
grims feasted at Plymouth. Many noted
receipts for this mixture have come
down to US, but perhaps none is better
known than that with which the Widow
Custis tried to kill the Father of bis
Country. Read It:
1.-TWO pounds OF beef, 2 pounds of cur
rants, Q pounds OF raisins, ] pound OF
citron, Q pounds of beef suet, IL
pounds of candied lemon peel, 4 pounds
Of apples, Q pounds of sultans raisins, 2
pounds of sugar, 2 nutmegs grated, IA
ounce Of cloves, IL ounce Of cinnamon,
IA ounce of mace, teaspoonful OF salt,
Q lemons (tbe juice and rind), 2 oranges
(the juice and rind). Simmer the meal
gently until tender, aud when perfectly
cold chop fine. Stone the rsisins, shred
the citron, pare, core, chop the apples,
chop the suet fine. Mix the fine In
gradients, then add the juices and rinds
Of the lemons and oranges. Pack In a
stone jar, cover close and keep COOL"
Yum! Yum!
Was not that enough to make George
have awful dreams?
But do you know dietitians now say
pies are harmless and wholesome, and
will not cause nightmares; that night.
mares are kind of Christian Science
idea anyway. You think you have them
but don't.
That idea 10 letting down the bars to
the temperate consumption OF pie, and
Is causing good deal OF regret for the
repression OF the past. A newspaper
jingle writer In commenting on 1t con'
c!uded az follows:
''If, when an adolescent youth. I'd known thit
scientific truth,
Ny conscience would have been more light,
Nor would pie have upset It.
For though felt quite satisfied that CASTRO
nomic suicide
Would be sin, packed 1t In
Whenever could get It,"
AQUARIUs.