[Sca-cooks] Cofyns

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Terry Decker wrote:

> Sorry.  That was supposed to be mid-16th Century.
>
> Bear
>
>> IIRC, the earliest addition of fat to a pie shell recipe, which would
>> improve the edibility, is mid-15th Century.

Isn't there a relatively early French piecrust recipe in verse that  
is more or less contemporary with Le Menagier and Taillevent? As I  
recall (which I don't, not very well) it called for little bits of  
fat. Maybe it appears in a footnote in the Pichon edition of Le  
Menagier?

I'm not awake yet...

Adamantius





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