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The Pie of Our Fathers—Minced Pie. —General Remarks. —Any pie, to be good, ought to have a light and flaky crust, or "pastry, " as more recently called, and the filling should be put in sufficiently thick to remove all suspicion of stinginess on the part of the maker, both of which points are most eloquently brought out in the following communication of Jennie June's, to the Baltimore American, written more particularly as a defence of the minced pie, or "the pie of our fathers, " as she calls it, against which so much has not only been said, but written. It is so rich in thought, eloquent in argument, and correct in its principles of instruction, it is worthy of a perusal, at least on Christmas occasions, by all lovers of minced pie, who have not "abused their stomachs, " as she puts it, "until they have become dyspeptics. " Such
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