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Aaron wanted to kill a chicken, for Nason likes chicken so much, but I knew that Aaron was so excited he'd like as not only cripple the poor thing, so I said I'd kill it while they talked. I made stuffing with onions in, like Nason likes, and I had just baked a snitz pie and I tell you we had a good dinner.
Aunt Rebecca's table, though not lavishly laden as are those of most of the Pennsylvania Dutch, was amply filled with good, substantial food. The fried sausage was browned just right, the potatoes and lima beans well-cooked, the cold slaw, with its dash of red peppers, was tasty and the snitz pie Uncle Amos's favorite was thick with cinnamon, its crust flaky and brown.
You'd just look at him and he'd shrivel till he'd look like a dried crabapple snitz!" Both laughed at the girl's words. A moment later they rose from the old log and walked down the path. When they had climbed the fence and stood in the hot, sunny road Martin said, "I guess I'll go home and get cleaned up." He rubbed a hand through his tumbled hair. "And get something to eat," she added.
"Your Aunt Rebecca says that if you cook apple butter in the up-sign of the almanac it boils over easy, but it's the down-sign to-day, and yet this cider boils up all the time." "I guess it'll all burn in the bottom," said Amanda, "if it's the down-sign." "Not if you stir it good when the snitz are in. That's the time the work begins. Here's your mom and Philip."
Uncle Amos's story had interfered with the snitzing. "Say," said Millie, "how can abody snitz apples when you make 'em laugh till the tears run down over the face?" "Oh, come on," cried Amanda, "I just thought of it let's tell fortunes with the peelin's!
Jiminy Christmas, guess we'll have a regular party to-day. All of us are in it, and Aunt Rebecca's comin', and Lyman Mertzheimer, and I guess Martin Landis, and mebbe some of the little Landis ones and the whole Crow Hill will be here. Here comes Millie with the snitz!" The pared apples were put into the kettle, then the stirring commenced.
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