Monthly Archives: November 2016

Chicken Pie and Blindman’s Buff: What You Might Not Know about an Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

Pies, pies, and more pies. It must be Thanksgiving in the nineteenth century. Pumpkin pies, cranberry pies, huckleberry pies, cherry pies, green-currant pies, peach, pear, and plum pies, custard pies, apple pies, Marlborough-pudding pies [apple custard pie]—pies with top crusts, … Continue reading

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