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Apple Pie Kitchen's Farmhouse Family

Apple Pie Kitchen's Farmhouse Family

by Elmer Prather, guest blogger

My latest puzzle is a five-hundred-piece titled Apple Pie Kitchen by Cobble Hill Puzzle Company. Before I spend the time putting puzzles together, I must have a connection to the puzzle. My connection to this puzzle is the wood-burning stove in the kitchen of the puzzle picture. My mother used a stove like this to cook for herself, my dad, and their seven children. My older brother and I were kept busy cutting the wood that my mother burned in her stove. In the mornings, she would cook homemade biscuits along with sausage or bacon. Sometimes we would put blackberry jelly into those hot buttered biscuits. The jelly was made from blackberries we had picked during the Summer and my mother had preserved.

A puzzle image of a girl in the kitchen with a baked pie in her hand.

This is a peaceful, but busy scene that shows a young lady cooking an apple pie, thus the name of the puzzle, Apple Pie Kitchen. As I put the puzzle together, I noticed the large bushel basket of apples sitting on the floor at the end of the table and the large pot of coffee on the stove. When I looked out through the window, I saw a large barn; from all of this I determined that this was a farmhouse kitchen, and the lady making the Pie was cooking for a large family. I could tell this by the size of the coffee pot and that bushel of apples. There is a cistern well used for their water supply. I can tell this by the hand pump mounted on the right side of the sink. For those unfamiliar with cistern wells, they are wells that have been dug beside or near a house. Typically, after the well is dug, concrete is applied all around the wall and floor of the well to seal it. The well will have a wooden structure over it to keep foreign particles and miscellaneous debris out. The well is fed by runoff rainwater that has flowed from the gutters on the roof via downspouts positioned between the roof and the well. This well holds rainwater until it is needed in the house. The hand pump is used to pump the water from the well to the kitchen. 

This puzzle brought back many memories of my mother and that wood-burning stove. One of those memories was once when I put two flashlight batteries into the oven of my mother’s stove, thinking that the heat would recharge them. At least when I was about eight years old, that was my plan. I put them in the oven after dinner, when the stove was not too hot, and forgot to take them out before going to bed. The next morning, my mother started a fire in her stove to cook her biscuits, and when the oven got hot, one of the batteries exploded. My mother thought the stove had exploded because the oven door blew open. My mother, in her kind way, explained to me that if that ever happened again, she would be cooking for six children, not seven.

Elmer Prather
Canton, Georgia
U S A

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