SC - Re: sca-cooks: viking's pies

[Philip W. Troy]

Deloris Booker wrote:
> 
> My Lord :
> 
> Welcome to cooking : No, pumpkin pies are not likely to be very period to
> vikings.
> 
> Depending on where they happened to be, the viking cook could have
> produced any or all of the following :
> 
> apple pie/tart
> cherry pie/tart
> gooseberry pie/tart
> 
> governing factor would be access to an oven.

Taillevent has a recipe for Norse pies. Don't recall at the moment
what's in them, or how truly Norse they may or may not be. Savory,
rather than sweet, though. Similar to a bunch of such pies that contain
things like cooked egg yolks, ground meat and/or chunks of bird, bone
marrow, cheese, etc.

Adamantius