[Sca-cooks] Lowest Cost for a reasonably festive feast & acamping event meal ?

[Antonia Calvo]

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

>We have a few people in our kingdom who delight in making pie crusts, but
>I'm definitely not one of them, and I'm loathe to impose on them. I've
>been in kitchen where we made the pie crusts on site, or even someone
>brought the pie crusts pre-made from home and we worked with them, and to
>me it's a lot of work for a lot of staff.
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I don't exactly delight in it, but I will usually bite the bullet  and 
do it.  I make hot-water pastry, which is easy to handle, then pre-roll 
and freeze flat.  Then at the event I thaw the pastry and put into pie 
tins.  Total time on the day = about 5 min per crust.

(and I can't buy pastry at anything like 2 shells for $1-- it's more 
like 80c per sheet of pastry, and more if I want foil tins.  That's a 
lot of money out of a sub-$10 budget)

-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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