Downeast Schoolhouse » sweets http://downeastschoolhouse.com Education, bread, music, orneriness. In monstrous slabs. Irony in wee drams. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hot Apple Pie http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/hot-apple-pie/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/hot-apple-pie/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:00:36 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=928

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At one time the only holidays observed throughout the New England States were Thanksgiving Day, Militia Day, and Election Day.  As a treat, voters were served slices of this heavily liquored yeast cake.

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Well, the hardest work that ever I done Is plowin’ a field of rye The easiest work that ever I done Was eatin’ chicken pie -Crow Black Chicken, Leake County Revelers, (1928)

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From Maida Heatter via John Thorne’s Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots

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