SC - Suggestions & Review Requested.

[Philip & Susan Troy]

At 4:55 PM -0700 9/11/00, Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
>Jadwiga wrote:
>
>>  Hm. You know, I had a thought, the sausage, cheese, mushroom etc. filled
>>  rolls/pies of bread dough may be period, based on a passage in the
>>  domostroi:
>>
>>  Domostroi: "When the servants bake bread, order them to set some of the
>>  dough aside, to be stuffed
>>       for pies. When they bake wheat bread, have pies made for the family
>>  from the coarse flour left in the
>>       sieve. For meat days stuff them with whichever meat is to hand. For
>>  fast days use kasha, peas, broth,
>>       turnips, mushrooms, cabbage, or whatever God provides...."
>>
>>  The fighting household that made teh bread dough wrapped around filling
>>  rolls found that they could be made ahead of time, baked, frozen solid,
>>  and transportported to War (Pennsic) in coolers and they kept quite well.
>
>Good lady:  could you render unto us all the complete book-citation for the
>above?  I am not familiar with the wisdom of the Domostroi but I think I can
>use this for meat-pye documentation for years to come.


If "meat pie documentation" means "evidence that they ate meat pies," 
you don't have to go as far afield as Domostroi, some of which is 
17th century. Meat pies are common in the 14th-15th c. English 
sources.

On the other hand, there is a large gap between "they ate meat pies" 
and "this particular meat pie is a period dish." The information 
quoted from Domostroi, while interesting, is well short of a clear 
recipe. The English sources, on the other hand, do give recipes, so 
if you want to make a period meat pie, the recipes are readily 
available.

You can find some in the _Miscellany_, webbed.
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David Friedman
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Santa Clara University
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