[Sca-cooks] tart crusts

[Daniel Myers]

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 11:46 PM, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:

> 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

Yup, that's the one!  I love this list - give a vague description of a
painting and someone will post a link to it.

Looking at the picture again, the tarts appear to be bowl-shaped.  That
would be even harder to do as a free standing crust.  Alternatively
they could be real bowls filled with a tart filling and cooked, but
that sounds a bit odd considering it's a peasant wedding.

Thanks Brighid!

- Doc


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