[Sca-cooks] tart crusts

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 16 Dec 2002, at 23:28, Daniel Myers wrote:

> I wish I could remember the title of the painting or the artist.  No
> tart pans or other dishes were present in the painting, only several
> tarts being carried on a serving board by two men.  The tarts were
> round with fairly straight sides, and filled approximately to the top
> edge of the crust.  What makes me suspect that they were baked in a pan
> was that they were quite uniform in shape and size, and the crusts
> didn't appear to be all that thick.  That combined with the way the
> custardes I made this weekend turned out suggests to me that they could
> have been made in a similar way.

I think you may mean "Peasant Wedding" by Pieter Brueghel the
Elder.

Here's a picture:
http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page431.html

Click on the plus sign in the circle beneath the thumbnail to see a
larger picture.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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