Show AN ENTHUSIAST FOR PIE I He Would Have H ve It at Every Meal as asWell asWell Well as s a Slab Sla Between Times Ne New ew York Sun Pi Pie for Is ts th the one g reproach r that is hurled at Nee Sic Ingland upland when the lowest of outsiders er wishes e to chuck ch k l Take the word ot or a arnan man who has baa tried H there are ar worse wore wone things for breakfast than pie I ion aln tree free to admit said he be that I 1 never but bat once really experienced pie for tor breakfast By that I 1 mean per pu perpetual peteR pet 1 pie pie for breakfast net not pie at a railroad station eating rouse but t pie on the breakfast ta table IfIe ble Just ju t the same HIM as butter or sugar ar or bread That was some year eara year ago age I spent pent penta a winter on un a job jeb j b pretty far back baek in SA northern Year New ew England and I boarded at a comfortable little cottage In u s stour I II tour four I or r five house e settlement for seine i OIn month mentha Rt really a farmhouse though It H had bad a little patch of ground fid It was 1118 the horn home of an old woman wem n and her grownup daughter An older son S n who supported the family worked wor i d in iR a II factory adory in a town some miles away a coming home for Sunday SUnda The old woman oman who took toek me in la literally not ROt was Wall the cook and she was wan some pie cook not with a varied repertoire so to speak but ex excellent e and with what she did It was wall winter Inter then and the pies for the most moct part were ere innee and apple but I number of those Ho there were w e any ny I site she produced so IJO many I cant pt tell fur for rm rut sure SUn I ate a pie plit a day dill and she and I her daughter ate some ine me while the ue sor fOr I could get et away a ay with two to or three front from f rom i I Saturday and Monday Honda You s sae e she knew what hat a piece of r i pie was A piece e was wu a quarter and two to pieces piece pl for tor dinner or even fo to breakfast t were no disgrace I never neter sat net down don at the table i iI that house breakfast or tiny any nJ other but there thero was at least one on ono o two plea on the table not al at always a I ways whole pies but enough and with witha a large reserve r erve to draw on Further Furthermore Furthermore Furthermore more moat mat of elf the Ute week days I spent s rt way wa back there I was at work ork so ft flu from the house boule that I carried a dinner pall paD and did I ever fail to find a piece I Ier of er pi pie plc in It I did not Pie for breakfast is not the only I form tonn of rural food that ha has hall been un tin unjustly unjustly justly abused Ive In known knon folks sneer at steak that was 8 first pounded tender t tand i and then tried fried but I know lots wort wor f things than a round steak hammered 1 I Ia a while hile and then Tried in butter rea read countr country butter bUller of off course and serve I piping hot At this little house of t i course they the do their own OT o TI I i slaughtering as RS many man of the time farmers did but hut they bought outright a quarter quarter quarter ter of beef beet and half bait a p g and kept It I d down wn cellar where it was cold enough to keep anything To this day I am amazed at the versatility of that pig Its an old Joke about the Chicago stock yards ards using everything but the squeak squeal but I still I believe that in some of or the dishes I bad had the tUe head hew cheese or the souse Bouee maybe mabe I that squeak was concealed But I 1 learned that winter that sweet pig pork as opposed to salt good to eat in many variations In fact of or all the real country things I had that w writer none was w wasted on en me Ine The one tiling I dread dreaded ed was wu the weekly treat that the son sn of the house Muse brought home for Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day night oysters canned or f oysters te from which later lat r a stew was waft made r |