piemaking

Updated: May 29, 2025

The block stood well out of the way next the meal barrel in the corner behind the door, and hard by the Short Shelf, sacred to cake and piemaking, as the Long Shelf beneath the window was given over to the three water buckets cedar with brass hoops always shining like gold the piggin, also of cedar, the corn-bread tray, and the cup-noggin.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South