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Article: The Jewish Kitchen; As American as Mock-Turtle Pie; Sure, pumpkin works, but chocolate and caramel are snazzier
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- Jewish Exponent
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- November 20, 2003
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Hofman, Ethel G.
Jewish Exponent
11-20-2003
Pies are as American as, well, apple pie! Colonial cooks, catering to
large, hard-working families, used to wrap everything from meat and
vegetables to fruit and cheese in a pastry blanket for hearty,
belly-filling meals.
In the fall, when fruit was plentiful, New England homemakers baked dozens
of pies and froze them in outdoor sheds. Before serving, they were thawed
in the warming cupboard above the fireplace.
Fried pies -- little pies filled with apples and cheese, then fried -- were
given to children to keep them quiet during long religious services. And on
early frontier homesteads, resourceful women lacking precious lemons
developed a recipe for mock ...
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