Comfort Me with Apples 21 1 
“Taffatv 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. 
