New Britain herald., 1923-12-08

Observer hunted up scrapple expert and asked these qhestions: How? l Where? And received the following | information:
 Scrapple is not scrapple. To the
 Pennsylvania Dutch farmer, it is | known by no other name than "paun l haus.'
 It is made only by farmers who
 butcher their own stock and the gen.
 une article seldom gets farther than
 IS or 20 miles from the place of pro- 1 duction. inasmuch as the supply never | has been known to equal the native demand.
 The farmer butchers his pig, makes all the usual cuts, many of which are very much different from the regular commercial cuts, and thus finds he | las large quantity of small pork
 scraps left over, that did not go into
 the sausage machine. These scraps
 usually consist of bones with small particles of meat sticking to them, chunks of skin with some meat on
 them and the part of the head and | feet which are edible. l The scraps are thrown into boiler with about 10 quarts of water to two pounds of meat. Two cups of finely chopped onions are thrown in and the whole boiled until the bones are clean. The meat then is removed and. chopped very fine while the liquid is strained so as to remove all small | bones.
 The fine meat is again put back into the liquid and boiled with plenty of salt. pepper, and other seasoning,
 including thyme, savory, sage, etc., and to this mixture is added six cups
 of cornmeal and three cups of buck wheat flour. The native farmer, if you ask him. usually tells strangers that he adds the curl of the pigs tail to give it shape and the last agoniz- ing squeal to add zest to the flavor
 The mixture after being thoroughly cooked is set out in pans for three or four days, after which the grease which works 10 the top is scraped off, leaving the finished product of the same ielly-ilke consistency as corn
 meal mush. This will keep for a month in cool place and the only cooking it requires is to be cut into slices and fried.
 The man who made the scrapple, or paun haus, which was served to the Rotary club, is A. NJ. Werkheiser, who lives in the village of Numedia, in the Catawissa valley of Pennsylvania. He butchered his pig on Wednesday, Nov. 2S, made his scrapple the same day and let it set until Saturday when he got up about 3 a, m, hitched np his team of mules and drove 10 to 20 miles over the mountains to the near est shipping point, making a whole days journey with his team there and back to ship out 40 pounds of scrap pic, for which he received 12 1-4 cents pound. or an even five dollars for ono man and two mules for a days work, plus half days work on the Wednesday preceding and the orig inal cost of the material.
 A few slices of scrapple, four CT five buckwheat cakes with fried po- tatoes, a few cups of coffee and a gen- erous slice Of pie, would make an ay- craze light breakfast in the section where the serapple is produced.
 Through an extension Of the work authorized by the recent session of the general assembly, the state board of education of the blind has hired sev- eral new home teachers and has re- districted the state, so that the teach or who will be assigned to Hartford, MiddlescN, and part of Litchield county, will be Miss 1vie M. Mead of s.lA ufil Qnl . about to towns and cities in these and will visit blind people in their homes and will teach them to read with their fingers and 10 make useful articles of reed and raffia as well as knitted. crocheted. and sewed goods. Miss Mead is blind and will be accompanied by a guide.
 There are about 900 blind persons in this state who are past 50 years of [ age. Ii is in order to bring some com fort and peace of mind as well as ii- nancial return, to this older group of blind persons that this work has been started. The articles they make un- der the direction of the home teacher are taken by the state board and sold, { and tho full price paid for an article is given to the blind person who made ii
 Service of this sort is rendered without charge to any blind person in Inc state. The state board Of educa- lion of the blind carries on various &C., tiyities for the blind.
 
 Bill Bumps sat idly in his one-arrn chair in the Cookcmquick lunch room picking his teeth with the gold tooth- pick some thoughtful friends present d him with last Christmas. He seemed 10 be in a mood for utter 4nce and his friend who cats so much pie encouraged him to give vent to his thoughts.
 Whats happened to the K. K. K. In town. Bil?" he asked.
 Don't know AS I can answer that Tor certain. but. like the Arabs VIC have read about, they seem to have -oldcd up their nighties and quietly stolen away" Bill replied.
 seems 10 have been quite fuss ,ver nothing" commented the pie 1end.
 "A fuss over nuthin' is right" said Bill. With the accent on the nuthin'. They never amounted to nuthin' any now. Nuthin' added to Nuthin' makes luthin'. l learned at school. and hesc fanatics started with just that md ended before they had got fn- shed.
 I'm a peace lOvin' individual. but I there's one thing that stirs my bile ID it's 10 hear Of some loon who goes ,ut Of his way and out Of bis mind ryin' 10 interfere with other pso-