Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Pumpkin Pies and Thanksgiving. [ARTICLE]

Pumpkin Pies and Thanksgiving.

With the pumpkin borrowed from the Indian, and the Yankee ingenuity that grew up with the New Englander forced to rely on his inventive skill, the pie was an easy creation. The pumpkin no doubt was one of the earliest of its family, for fruits when the white man came were only such as he found wild and they would not keep through the fall and winter as the modern genius has made possible. The pumpkin, however, was a keeper, and therefore available at late periods of the year for pies and sauces, and it has never lost its place on the Thanksgiving table. Nor, to do it justice, is there any reason why it should. The pumpkin pie needs no apologies on Thanksgiving or any other day.