[Sca-cooks] Pie Shapers

[Johnna Holloway]

Start with Three pies were made from seventeenth century designs
http://www.historicfood.com/Pie%20recipe.htm

Now compare those pies with the ones pictured here
http://www.historicfood.com/FransFranken.htm

The picture is by Frans Franken [Frans Francken II]
and was painted in circa 1603-1605.
It's titled /Lazarus and Dives/ or Der Arme Lazarus.
So decorated pies were appearing in paintings just after 1600.

The painting Lazarus at the Rich Man's Table, 1618 by Kaspar van den Hoecke
is also probably the inspiration for the pie with the peacock. It's featured
on the front of The Pleasures of the Table which is a book that Ivan
day co-authored with Peter Brown.I've found anything on the web except for
a couple of posters.

Johnnae