SC - Pasties in Period?

[david friedman]

At 12:21 PM -0600 1/22/98, Mark.S Harris wrote:
>Anne-Marie said:
>
>>...and savory ones like the chicks in pastry from le Menagier or the 12th
>>century Northern European source (mmm...pastellum...chicken wrapped in bacon
>>and fresh sage leaves then baked in dough...).
>
>Yum. Sounds wonderful. Anyone have the original recipe and redaction for
>this chicken wrapped in bacon and fresh sage leaves meat pie? The sage
>leaves stay in the pie to be eaten?

1. It isn't a pie.

2. It is in the Miscellany, as "Icelandic Chicken." The reason for that
title is that I first encountered the work in question in the form of one
of the daughter manuscripts of the (lost, presumably 12th c.) original,
which daughter was in an Icelandic medical miscellany.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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