[Sca-cooks] Pastry cases - baking blind?

[Stefan li Rous]

Elewyiss commented:
> Ok, and reasons we can't actually serve this to the royals is?
Why can't we? I'm sure it has been done. The stories I can remember 
though were done with wind-up toys and such. I think one or more of 
these are in the Florilegium.

Stefan
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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