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Show NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT PIE Time Was When No Thanksgiving Dinner Was Worthy of tha Name in I ts Absence. Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie was held to be unthinkable. Yet there could be no pumpkin pie without molasses mo-lasses ; because Colchester, Connecticut, Connecti-cut, did not receive its supply of molasses mo-lasses in season, it voted, in 1705, to put off Its Thanksgiving from the first to the second Thursday of November! Pumpkin pies thus featured were usually usu-ally baked in square tins, having only four corner pieces to each pie. Second only to the pumpkin pie In importance at such a Thanksgiving feast as Whittier sings was the turkey tur-key which had been fattened for the The Indispensable Pie. occasion and which, when slowly roast ing before the open fire and painstakingly painstak-ingly basted from the dripping pan beneath, be-neath, was fit to be the lord of any feast. Chicken there was, too, though always in the form of chicken pie, and vegetables of every sort, with raisins rais-ins and citron, walnuts and popcorn, apples and cider galore. Surely few could have really wished joys such as these to be sacrificed to a second service in the meeting house: |