[Sca-cooks] Re: Historic Cheesecake in the papers this past week

[Stefan li Rous]

Selene forwarded to us:
> The fine folks at Plimoth Plantation sent back a response, citing the 
> period
> source they used.  Oh well, it's the right century anyway.
>
> May, Robert. The Accomplish¹t Cook. 1666. Reprint. Totnes, Devon:  
> Prospect
> Books, 1994.
>
> To make cool Butter Paste for Patty pans or Pasties.
>
>           Take to every peck of flour five pounds of butter, the 
> whites of six
> eggs, and work it well together with cold spring water; you must 
> bestow a
> great deal of pains, and but little water, or you put out the millers 
> eyes.
> This paste is good only for patty pan and pasty.
Huh? So what is a "patty pan" and how does this vary from a pastie? And 
what is this about the millers eyes?

Stefan
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