[Sca-cooks] Pastry cases - baking blind?

[Terry Decker]

IIRC, Master Martino uses a covered pie shell filled with flour as the first
step in preparing live blackbirds in a pie.  The bottom is cut out, the
flour removed, the blackbirds inserted and then the pie shell is placed over
a second pie.  You get the effect of the birds flying out of the pie and
still are able to serve from the shell.

Bear

>Help!  I think I may be hallucinating... Am I imagining it, or is there
>somewhere in the medieval corpus (I know not where, she says despairingly),
>a recipe for a tart of some sort which specifies filling the shell with
>flour before pre-baking it?  I seem to vaguely remember some such recipe,
>but can't find the damned thing in any of my books, and I'm starting to
>twitch at the sight of the word "coffin".  Does anyone remember anything of
>the sort?
>
>frustrated,
>JdH
>
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