[Sca-cooks] tart crusts/pans

[Stefan li Rous]

Johnnae llyn Lewis replied to me with:
> Well, way back in the mid 1970's just after
>  not-so Fabulous Feasts made its appearance,
> there were a number of these pies served at Midrealm feasts.
> Cosman offers Live Frog and Turtle Pie on page 204.
> I can remember frogs and it seems to me that mice
> were also served.

Oh! I guess I had a reverse "You Know You're in the SCA when..."
moment. I wasn't even thinking about the SCA. Hey, I'm an SCA newbie.
I've only been in since late 88. I guess I forgot that the SCA existed
in the 70s. I thought you were talking about mundane dinner parties or
state dinners when you said head table. I take it, (now) that the Williams-
Sonoma pan set was not sold specifically as a pan for making removeable
crust pies.
I'm not sure how this particular pan helps make the lift off top
crusts. But suddenly this idea does sound intriguing. I guess you
could also cook the pie with a top crust, but full of the pie beans.
You then pour out the pie beans and either cut off the top or simply
put/pour the new contents into the pie. Hmmm. Now that could be a real
different eel pie... How long will eels live out of water? hmmm.


> Head tables at State banquets are another subject, but
> I think some of the White House cookbooks would give
> you that information if you are interested.

Sigh. I haven't got the time to investigate the things already on my list...


Stefan

>> Johnnae llyn Lewis commented:
>> > Sometime back in the late 1970's Willams-Sonoma sold
>> > a two part tart pan set. The bottom had fluted sides
>> > and was deep. The neat thing was that it came with a
>> > domed lid. It was the easiest way to make the pies
>> > with the lift off top crusts. This was the era when
>> > everyone was baking presentation pies for the head table.
>> > Sometimes they contained food and other times they contained
>> >  things like frogs that hopped out.
>>
>> Huh? Which era are you talking about with this "era when everyone
>> was baking presentation pied"? The 1970s? If so, then I must have
>> missed this...
>> Somehow I don't think President Ford or Nixon would have been thrilled
>> if a live frog had jumped out of the pie at a state dinner. Jimmy Carter,
>> though...
>> --
>> THLord Stefan li Rous

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