SC - Pies
James F. Johnson
seumas at mind.net
Wed Sep 13 00:19:20 PDT 2000
Perhaps the corpus of recipes are meant for the noble's table, while the
illustration depicts the 'blue-collar lunch pail', or 'fast food
on-the-go'. The pastie or modern fruit pie shape would fit in ones's
wallet far more easily than a whole coffin, or even a slice of one.
Seumas
"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
>
> Morgan Cain wrote:
>
> > I meant in terms of shape, not filling. Most period pies, at least in the
> > recipes I have seen, have a "coffyn" of some type and do not indicate the
> > turnover-style of pastry used in a pasty. Of course, I've been a bit
> > focused of late (strawberry pie A&S entry in the works).
>
> It may not say so in the recipes that we have in our current corpus,
> however, there are period illustrations showing folks eating what look
> for all the world like Hostess Fruit Pies. My favorite is on a French
> ivory, late 14th c., and it shows the fellow with the pie in his hand,
> with a bite out of it, and his mouth is obviously full...
>
> 'Lainie
> ============================================================================
>
> To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
> Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".
>
> ============================================================================
- --
Roi ne suis prince, ni duc, ni comte aussi; je suis sire de
Bruyerecourt.
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list