SC - Game pies - Caveat Redactor

[Philip & Susan Troy]

I wrote:
> > I'm inclined to think a game pie with a sealer/filler of butter would be
> > only marginally period, while the similar receipts of someone like
> > Elinor Fettiplace, which might call for an egg-thickened wine sauce to
> > be poured into the pie after baking, would be a closer relative to the
> > medieval pies of game, fruit, bone marrow, and custard.
 
Sue Wensel wrote:
> Why?  I have seen several very late period/just post-period meat pie recipes
> calling for the use of butter as a filler.  Markham has a chicken recipe in
> which he calls for the cavity of the bird to be filled with butter and butter
> to be put around the bird.

That was precisely my point. I'm not saying "Pies filled with butter
don't ever appear in period." I only pointed out that there are other
pies which are more typical of most period recipes, which aren't filled
with butter.

Adamantius