[Sca-cooks] Pie Funnel?
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Sun Jul 12 20:09:17 PDT 2009
No. Live birds served in a pie shell is the source of the rhyme. Martino
provides a recipe for preparing a pie case to receive live birds and second
pie to be served after the birds fly out.
Bear
> Is this the source of the rhyme?
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Jane Boyko <jboyko at magma.ca> wrote:
>
>> I think it is like the blackbirds I used to buy but bigger and easier to
>> clean. You insert it into the centre of the pie (not all the way down
>> but
>> definitely through the crust) and while the pie bakes the juices come up
>> through the funnel and hopefully don't spill over too much. If they do
>> they
>> just spread across the pie crust. This keeps the juices from going over
>> the
>> side of the pie and onto the bottom of the oven where, as we all know,
>> they
>> can be difficult to clean off.
>>
>> Marina
> --
> Ian of Oertha
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