[Sca-cooks] tart crusts

[Daniel Myers]

On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 01:12 AM, Kristen Skold wrote:

> At 12:05 AM 12/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 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
>
> Hmm - looking at this picture, I could believe they're bowls. Look at
> the
> man taking them off the tray. I wouldn't trust a tart crust to survive
> that
> kind of handling. And farther down the table, to the left, there are
> two
> people (a man in a black hat and a woman in a white cap) who look to
> me to
> be eating out of the bowls rather than eating a tart.

Yeah, I noticed them late last night.  They probably are bowls then,
though the contents would have to be pretty thick considering how the
server has the one tilted.  I'll have to look at other pictures for
examples of tarts.

- Doc


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