SC - Sweet Spinach Tart

[Decker, Terry D.]

The spinach tart was served at room temperature.  I tasted it both hot and
cold, and I'm of the opinion that it tasted better cold.  While Markham may
have meant for the dish to be baked in the coffin, I would judge the recipe
to mean that the spinach was cooked seperately from the coffin (which would
have been prepared during an earlier baking) then the spinach was placed in
the coffin and prepared for presentation.  The dish should hold well on a
sideboard.

The pie shell I chose to make for the coffin may not be what was used in
period, we don't know.  But it did suit my needs, and it was from a recipe I
had not previously worked.  Gotta get my fun in somewhere.

Bear

> Bear, did you serve this hot or cold?  Would it make much 
> difference?  Did 
> you try it both ways or just one?  I'm just wondering if this 
> may make a 
> good pic-nic type of item cold at the Baronial Pavillion at 
> the Tourney 
> field.
> Olwen