Word: pies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighter vein is Frederick Watson's Hunting Pie (Derrydale Press: $7.50). enthusiastically foreworded by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., illustrated by Paul Brown...
...were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...
...special to Washington, "Waiter, I will eat this $1.25 luncheon. . . . This gumbo soup. . . . This chicken à la king. . . . This apple pie...
Each day the bakery turns out 125 dozen muffins, 200 dozen cookies, 200 pounds of cake, 40 to 50 large pans of pudding, 250 leaves of French bread, 175 dozen rolls, and when a popular dessert such as apple pie is to be baked, it takes 250 pies to feed the College. All fillings for pies, and sauces for puddings are made in the bakery, although in the case of sauces and whipped cream, the ingredients are sent along separately to the individual kitchens, where they are mixed...
...Pie powder was a court for the quick solution of breaches of promise...