[Sca-cooks] pie bird/pie funnel?
Devra at aol.com
Devra at aol.com
Mon Jul 10 14:25:53 PDT 2006
A pie bird is a hollow ceramic item, usually made in the shape of a
blackbird, with open mouth (kind of playing on the '4 & 20 blackbirds' joke.) It is
placed on the bottom crust of the pie, and the filling is piled around it.
Then the top crust is put on, and vented over the bird so that the head and beak
poke out. Then you bake the pie. The bird functions to vent steam and also
extra liquid; it helps keep the pie from boiling over. I guess a pie funnel
would serve the same function; never seen one of them, though...
Devra, who thought she had one of them there things here somewhere
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