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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHOLESOME PIE. 
ET seme anti-pie eater tell us why 
plain apple pie is more danger¬ 
ous to health than apple sauce and 
bread.”—E, N.-Y. Brevities, July 7. 
I am not an anti-pie eater, but I think 
that the above call should be responded 
to, and as no response has yet been 
printed in ThkH. N.-Y., I send my ideas. 
If it is plain apple pie, the difference is 
but little. The trouble is, the pie is 
generally rather a complex affair. Ihe 
crust must be “ short,” “ flaky ” and 
“ melting,” to suit the eye, if wholesome¬ 
ness and palatability, even, be destroyed. 
Concentrated fats are always objection¬ 
able. An authority says : “ Fixed oils 
or fats are more difficult of digestion, 
and more obnoxious to the stomach than 
any other alimentary principle. They 
will be found the offending ingredient in 
nine-tenths of the dishes which disturb 
weak stomachs.” Pie crust, as usually 
made, is a most indigestible mixture, 
composed largely of the most objection¬ 
able fat used in epoking, lard.” 
The best plain apple pie consists only 
of bread, sugar and apples, as follows : 
Mix well six ounces of fine bread crumbs 
with four ounces of pounded sugar. Cover 
a pie plate with the mixture, fill the 
plate with sliced, tart apples (or, if apple 
pie is not wanted, use other fruit), and 
cover with the mixture of ernmbs and 
sugar: smooth it down firmly and bake. 
This pie will fill all requirements for 
looks, palatability and health. Granu¬ 
lated sugar may be used. Half as much 
sugar as crumbs is about the proportion. 
Other good pie crusts may be made of 
wheat meal, sweet cream and potatoes ; 
cr the potatoes may be omitted. Fine 
flour of the entire wheat, as made by the 
Franklin Mills Co., of Lockport, N. Y., 
may be used instead of Graham, and is 
supeiior to fine, common flour in the 
apple pie recipe. 
For custard pies, cover the pie plate 
with dry entire wheat flour, or with half 
common fine flour and half corn meal, 
put in the custard and bake. Grease all 
pie plates ; leave all grease out of crust. 
Try it. 
A palatable pie may be made of four 
tablespoonfuls of oat-meal soaked over¬ 
night in one pint of water, three or four 
large sour sliced apples, one cupful of 
sugar, one tablespoonful of flour and a 
little salt. Mix all well together and 
bake on a buttered dish. Enough of the 
oat-meal will settle to the bottom to 
make a sort of crust. 
We like better to take two teacupfuls 
of cat-meal and soak overnight in two 
quarts of water ; then add two quarts of 
sliced sour apples, two teacupfuls of 
sugar, a little flour and salt, and steam 
in a cooker for two or three hours. This 
is really a pudding, but it’s good to eat. 
G. G. GIBBS. 
this process, which was alluded to last 
week. Wash the rhubarb, peel off 
the stringy part, cut in small pieces 
and fill the jir, which must have a screw 
top. Plunge the j ir into a pail of clean, 
cold water so that it is entirely covered, 
and when the bubbles have ceased to 
rise, showing that the air is all out, screw 
on the top without taking the jar out of 
the water. This method requires no 
fire, and the rhubarb will keep as long 
as any other kind of fruit. I have some 
which has been canned a year and it is 
keeping nicely. I do not know whether 
there is anything else which may be 
canned in this way, for I have never tried 
anything but the rhubarb. 
Cleaning a Refrigerator. — Probably 
few housekeepers, says Dr. Cyrus Ed- 
son, of the New York Board of Health, 
have any idea of what is meant by 
keeping the refrigerator clean. All re¬ 
frigerators should be washed out thor¬ 
oughly once a week with hot water in 
which soda has been dissolved. In the 
part w'here the food is kept, little parti¬ 
cles of this are apt to adhere to the zinc. 
Unless these are removed, they will pu¬ 
trefy and produce a germ which will 
attack at once all fresh food put in, and 
cause it to become bad in a very short 
time. Almost every one is familiar with 
the stale smell in refrigerators, which is 
indicative of putrefying matter. Merely 
to wash out a refrigerator is not enough; 
it must be cleaned. Tnis means that the 
corners must be scrubbed out and the 
waste-pipe thoroughly cleansed. Then, 
before the ice is put into it, it should be 
well aired. The solution of soda should 
be washed out with fresh hot water. 
A Homemade Drink.— Nothing is more 
refreshing on a hot day than a cold, 
homemade drink. No root beer which is 
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