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  • From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] pie for breakfast, was How to judge history, was Obama and religion
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:04:51 -0400

I grew up in a west central Indiana OOGB community, and we always had pie for breakfast. In fact, in the specific area where I grew up we often finished breakfast with stack pie: sugar cream on the bottom, slide on a cottage cheese or 'sour-cheese' pie, and top it with a fruit pie of some sort. Slice down through the whole stack, and each guy gets a 'stack piece'.

When I lived in coastal Virginia for 20 years, I think the only folks who didn't think pie for breakfast was weird were those who grew up somewhere else. I merrily warped my kids' brains with pie anyway. Really didn't see much pie there anyway, could go to many carry-ins with nary a pie....although when I lived in the VA mountains they made pie there---only the Mennonites made a habit of eating it for breakfast though, that I saw.

Here, in Maine, I find pie often eaten for breakfast among us ol' timer-types, but the young folks and come-heres shudder at the thought as they jump in their cars with a cup of sweetened coffee to start the day....

I just rendered about 50 pounds of fat off the neighbor's pig, specifically for the lard, mostly for pie crusts. Yeah, I know, I'm gonna die early....but happy.
Susan Jane, in Maine in the rain




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