[Sca-cooks] tarts vs. pies, a bit of help

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:50:34 -0500
>From: Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
>
>>  OK, so that's not period either. But i have to say, i really don't
>>  like having someone else's dirty knife cutting the pie - even thought
>>  that would be period. BUT... we have about 10 per cent vegetarians at
>>  my feasts, and by pre-cutting, they don't have to worry about
>>  someone's meat-contaminated knife touching their pie slice.
>
>Why would this be period? Wouldn't the servers/carvers cut the pie just
>as they would the meat?

Well, i was told this by a local Laurel whom i respect and i will 
confess i assumed she was correct.

>Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:16:36 -0800
>From: Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net>
>
>  >>OK, so that's not period either. But i have to say, i really don't
>>>like having someone else's dirty knife cutting the pie - even thought
>>>that would be period. BUT... we have about 10 per cent vegetarians at
>>>my feasts, and by pre-cutting, they don't have to worry about
>  >>someone's meat-contaminated knife touching their pie slice.
>  >
>>Why would this be period? Wouldn't the servers/carvers cut the pie just
>>as they would the meat?
>
>I prefer the little pies for that reason as well as portion control.
>  Nobody hogs half the pie on the first go-round!  Those who really like
>it can beg leftovers like everybody else.  <grin>

Ah, but that's why i like that pie slicer. Nobody hogs half the pie 
on the first go-round, as servings are clear.

Anahita