[Sca-cooks] What constitutes modern food

[Ian Kusz]

Oh, sorry, I wasn't aware that meat pies came that way, as I'm used to
calling the sort of portable ones "pasties" or "cannoli" or what-have-you.

Huh...anthropology for me.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Georgia Foster <jo_foster81 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> actually when the word 'Pie' is uttered at my house it rarely means the 8
> inch shell full of fruit or custard or both.  This used to happen on
> holidays at Grandma's house.
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> When you say the words 'meat pie' it means a 7 inch circle of crust
> something between pie crust and biscuit, heaped with a mixture of ground
> beef and finely chopped onion, garlic and celery plus any combination of
> leftover veggies from previous evening's meals, edges wetted slightly,
> folded over and baked.  If served at table it is offered with mushroom and
> onion sauce.  It can be, and often is, eaten out-of-hand eihter cold or
> warmed up, depending on the preference and state of hurry of the diner.
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> The only time one will see the little mini open top pie shapped shells
> filled with sweet is around the holidays.  Usual offereings include cheese
> tart topped with cherries (grahm cracker crust), pumpkin tart topped with
> cinnamon cream (shortbread cookie dough for crust), dutch apple tart
> (standard pie crust), custard tart topped with mixed berry compost (using
> brown sugar shortcrust), lemon curd tart (pie crust made with lemon juice
> for the liquid), etc ... you get the idea.  I make six to eight of each type
> of tart depending on the number of guests I expect and how many I want to
> have left over.  Usually during holidays, refrigeration is not a problem
> since Mother Nature provides quite well and all that is needed to take
> advantage of it is a clean plastic tote.
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> BUT
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> I do understand that the SCA may have invaded my food life somewhat.
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> Cheers
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> Malkin
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> Otherhill
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> Artemisia
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> Jo (Georgia L.) Foster
>
> Never knock on Death's door.
> Ring the doorbell and run ... he hates that.
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