[Sca-cooks] torte vs. tart

[aeduin]

At 11:00 PM 11/29/2003, you wrote:

>>Indeed, my wife has made me suspicious that a lot of the "tart" recipes
>>in the translations of Sabina Welserin (and Guter Spise?) really ARE
>>"torte" and not "tarts" at all...
>Ok, so what is the difference between a "torte" and a "tart"? Tarts are 
>pies without a top pastry shell or even lacing, right?
>
>Stefan
Tortes you can bring home to your wife, tarts are best left 
outside.  (quick someone hold open the door to the Rock)

Seriously,  I think of tarts as sweet and tortes as not.  But then that may 
be my modern interpretation.

AEduin