Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13545-h.htm or 13545-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/5/4/13545/13545-h/13545-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/5/4/13545/13545-h.zip) MARY AT THE FARM AND BOOK OF RECIPES COMPILED DURING HER VISIT AMONG THE "PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS" by EDITH M. THOMAS With Illustrations 1915 We love our Pennsylvania, grand old Keystone State; Land of far famed rivers, and rock-ribbed mountains great. With her wealth of "Dusky Diamonds" and historic valleys fair, Proud to claim her as our birthplace; land of varied treasures rare. PREFACE The incidents narrated in this book are based on fact, and, while not absolutely true in every particular, the characters are all drawn from real life. The photographs are true likenesses of the people they are supposed to represent, and while in some instances the correct names are not given (for reasons which the reader will readily understand), the various scenes, relics, etc., are true historically and geographically. The places described can be easily recognized by any one who has ever visited the section of Pennsylvania in which the plot (if it can really be called a plot) of the story is laid. Many of the recipes given Mary by Pennsylvania German housewives, noted for the excellence of their cooking, have never appeared in print. THE AUTHOR. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY FRIENDS WITH GRATITUDE FOR THEIR MANY HELPFUL KINDNESSES. [Illustration] "HE WHO HAS A THOUSAND FRIENDS, HAS NEVER A ONE TO SPARE." THE HOUSEKEEPER'S SYMPHONY "To do the best that I can, from morn till night. And pray for added strength with coming light; To make the family income reach alway, With some left over for a rainy day; To do distasteful things with happy face, To try and keep the odds and ends in place. To smile instead of frown at Fate, Which placed me in a family always late For meals; to do the sewing, mending and The thousand small things always near at hand, And do them always with a cheerful heart, Because in life they seem to be my part; To know the place of everything and keep It there, to think, to plan, to cook, to sweep, To brew, to bake, to answer questions, To be the mainspring of the family clock. (Or that effect) and see that no tick, tock Is out of time or tune, or soon or late, This is the only symphony which I Can ever hope to operate." MARION WILEY. CONTENTS I Mary's Letter Received at Clear Spring Farm II Mary's Arrival at the Farm III Schuggenhaus Township IV John Landis V The Old Farm-House and Garden VI Mary Confides in "Aunt Sarah" and Gives Her Views on Suffrage for Women VII Professor Schmidt VIII Uses of An Old-Fashioned Wardrobe IX Poetry and Pie