Comfort Me with Apples 



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" Taffaty tarts " were of paste filled with Apples 

 sweetened and seasoned with Lemon, Rose-water, 

 and Fennel seed. Apple-sticklin', Apple-stucklin, 

 Apple-twelin, Apple-hoglin, are old English pro- 

 vincial names of Apple pie; Apple-betty is a New 



Ancient Apple Picker, Apple Racks, Apple Parers, Apple-butter Ket- 

 tle, Apple-butter Paddle, Apple-butter Stirrer, Apple-butter Crocks. 



England term. The Apple Slump of New England 

 homes was not the " slump-pye " of old England, 

 which was a rich mutton pie flavored with wine and 

 jelly, and covered with a rich confection of nuts and 

 fruit. 



In Pennsylvania, among the people known as the 

 Pennsylvania Dutch, the Apple frolic was universal. 



