Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1920 — OPPOSED TO CHRISTMAS PIE [ARTICLE]

OPPOSED TO CHRISTMAS PIE

The Puritans were not alone In their opposition to mince or Christmas pie. The Quakers also fought against It. and at length even many good people of the Church of England began to think that clergymen should abstain from it, against which prejudice Blckerstaffe thus remonstrates: “The Christmus pie is. In Its own nature, a kind of consecrated cake or badge Of distinction, and yet it is often forbidden tin* druid of the family. Strange that a sirloin of beef, whether boiled or roasted, when entire is exposed to the utmost depredations and Invasions, but if minced into smhll pieces and tossed up with plums und sugar It changes the property, and forsooth Is meat for Ills master."