Pies for Calorie Counters

Perhaps the greatest compliment to pies is the way the dessert holds its own in a weight-conscious age—proof that they’re too good to give up. True, some of the exceptionally rich treats have been abandoned. Hoosier Cream Pie, for instance, the old-fashioned pie previously mentioned. Its filling contained only pure cream, sugar, flavoring and a little flour for thickening. Apple-Pork Pie is disappearing even from farm tables. Part of its decline can be attributed to the changing farm scene. Now that farm animals usually are slaughtered, processed and the meat frozen in locker plants, there’s rarely the former excess of salt pork that must be used. So naturally, apple pie with salt pork, cut in pieces the size of small peas, combined with the fruit and baked in pastry, would be baked less frequently, regardless of its calorie content. (Good, though!)