[Sca-cooks] What is the difference between a pie and a tart?
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Fri Nov 28 21:37:32 PST 2014
An old issue, apparently:
". A tart , s . [ a pie made of fruit ]"
http://books.google.com/books?id=gyvBKDNXp4oC&dq=pie%20tart&pg=PT570#v=onepa
ge&q&f=false
1727
"TART (S.) a small fruit-pie."
http://books.google.com/books?id=1X14e0cGJ-MC&dq=pie%20tart&pg=PT795#v=onepa
ge&q&f=false
1760
"PIES AND TARTS. WHEN we were boys there was a clear distinction between a
tart and a pie. A pie was a pie and a tart was a tart. But now, alas, the
terms are interchanged without sense or reason'
http://books.google.com/books?id=BNZMAAAAMAAJ&dq=pie%20tart&pg=PA151#v=onepa
ge&q&f=false
1870
"What is the difference between a pie and a tart? Sir Walter Besant says
that a fruit tart of any kind is an open thing; a pie is a covered thing.
This is a simple definition that will commend itself to most persons, although
it is far from being accepted universally. It was regarded as one of the
eccentricities of the eccentric Lord Dudley that he would say "apple pie,"
contending with Sir Walter that the term tart applied to open pastry only.
It was the fashion of his period apparently to call fruit pies " tarts," and
meat pies " pies." In Abraham Hayward's articles on "The Art of Dining,"
as they originally appeared in The Quarterly Review, there is a footnote to
the word "pies," correcting it to "tarts." "
http://books.google.com/books?id=Je0mAQAAIAAJ&dq=pie%20tart&pg=PA285#v=onepa
ge&q&f=false
1898
"It is the word Pie. Time was when this word covered everything whether
meat or fruit baked in a dish or tin under a crust of pastry. The word Tart
on the other hand denoted a piece of pastry bearing its sweet burden
uncovered"
http://books.google.com/books?id=qvg9AQAAMAAJ&dq=pie%20tart&pg=PA74#v=onepag
e&q&f=false
1898
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Bread, Pastry and Sweets in Old Regime France
https://www.createspace.com/5069278
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJZKRTQ
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