[Sca-cooks] How Big Tarts???

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 23 Sep 2002, at 17:38, Barbara Benson wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> A question that has been plaguing me for a bit. How big and what shape
> were tarts/pies in period?

Some of the tart/pie recipes in late period Spanish sources specify
exact quantities.  Of the ones that I have redacted, I find that 1/4 to
1/3 of the filling fits into a standard 9" pie crust.


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