[Sca-cooks] Apple and pear pie?
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Wed Sep 1 17:58:25 PDT 2004
>I remember some years ago running across a recipe, probably in the
>Elizabethan corpus somewhere, for a mixed apple and pear pie.
>Anyone have any ideas
>where I might find something like this? It's for dessert for the Metalsmith's
>Symposium that I am co-head cook for in November.
>
This is from the feast booklet from The Barony of the Middle March's
Twelfth Night
Tartys in Applis, Diverse Servicia #82
Tak gode applys & gode spyces & figys & reysouns & perys, & wan they
are wel ybrayd colour wyth safroun & do yt in a cofyn, & do it forth
to bake wel.
Take good apples and good spices and figs and raisins and pears, and
when they are chopped small, color with saffron and put them in a
pastry crust and do it forth to bake well.
This was served as apples and pears as a filling for a bread ring.
The "Five gold rings" for a Twelve Days of Christmas theme.
Ranvaig
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