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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...around the edge, an unbroken curve without flattened base or projecting rim. The shape is characteristic, and unsuited for any other use than that for which it was designed. The American fruitpie plate is not found in England or on the Continent. Among the earliest clay utensils of the Pennsylvania Germans the typical pie plate was not found, but it was introduced at a later period, toward the end of the eighteenth century, and soon afterwards came into general use. The oldest examples of pie plates which have come to my notice bear the date 1785, and it is not probable that they were made much previous to that date. All the dishes in the Pennsyl 'Johnson's Wonder Working Providence ; p. 174. y&riia Museum collection which bear earlier dates are of other forms, and, doubtless, served for other purposes, such as for. meats or vegetables. The art of pie-making was undoubtedly acquired by the Germans from their American neighbors, and the former were not slow to adopt it as their own. The fruits and vegetables which the fertile soil of their farms produced in such great abundance furnished material for pies of every description at a trifling cost. The Pennsylvania-German housewives usually kept a goodly supply of these confections in the house and served them at every meal. There were apple, quince, peach, plum, cherry, blackberry, whortleberry (huckleberry), raspberry and strawberry pies, and those made of squash, pumpkins and other vegetables and even the molasses pie was a well-known dish in certain sections. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Oldtown Folks, says: The pie is an English institution, which, planted on American soil, forthwith ran rampant and burst forth into an untold variety of genera and species. She refer...

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