Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1859 — PIES. [ARTICLE]

PIES.

In a new county, where fruit is anything with the flavor of apples, is always acceptable. Vinegar Pie.—Take a gill of good cider or vinegar, a quart of water, a tea cup full of sorghum molasses, or a cup full of sugar, half a dozen spoons full of wheat flour. Set it over the fire and let boil, then bake, with one or two crusts. Jasper Pie.—Make one crust with a rim, as for a custard, spread in a layer of sugar, wet it with vinegar, sift on a thin coating of flour, then another layer of sugar, wet with vinegar and coated with flour, lay on narrow strips of crust, and bake. Season with allspice, rose leaves, or lemon peal. This is a good pie. Rhubarb or Pieplant.—This desirable substitute for apples, requires the riahest soil. It may be raised from seed, or rutsing the root and dividing each sprout off with a sharp knife, and re-setting the plants two feet apart, and the rows three feet. While a person is about it, he may just as well raise enough. Tend it out with a shovelplow or cultivator, and have it plenty. Sandy soil, muck, or clay will produce it. if thewater does not stand about the roots. In resetting the plants, the buds ought to be two inches below the surface. There are several varieties of this plant, some small dwanish, crabbish stuff', others large ami of good flavor. '