[Sca-cooks] Pie crust in Martino

[David Friedman]

We are doing a cooking workshop tomorrow and one of the recipes I was 
thinking of doing is a Martino tort--Custard. Looking through the 
chapter on tortes I have not yet found any explanation of what the crust 
is. The obvious alternatives are either a flour and water dough or a 
flour, water, and fat dough like a modern pie crust. I haven't checked 
Platina yet.

Does anyone happen to have a clear answer, a description in one of the 
early Italian sources of what the crust of a tort was?

On another subject, looking through al-Warraq I was reminded of one 
problem with the translation. It routinely says things such as "two 
uqiyya (1/4 cup)." It treats "ratl" as a pound. That would get 
proportions correct if there were sixteen uqiya to the ratl as in the 
standard modern ounce/pound ratio, but  there are twelve uqiyya to the 
ratl, like the Troy system.

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David/Cariadoc
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