There was actually more crust than filling. Often these pies were made using fowl and the legs were left to hang over the side of the dish and used as handles. Fruit pies or tarts pasties were probably first made in the s. English tradition credits making the first cherry pie to Queen Elizabeth I.
Pie came to America with the first English settlers. The early colonists cooked their pies in long narrow pans calling them "coffins" like the crust in England. The wealthy and educated Romans used various types of meat in every course of the meal, including the dessert course secundae mensea.
According to historical records, oysters, mussels, lampreys, and other meats and fish were normal in Roman puddings. It is thought that the puddings were a lot like pies.. They were also called libum by the Romans, and were primarily used as an offering to their gods. Placenta was more like a cheesecake, baked on a pastry base, or sometimes inside a pastry case.
The delights of the pie spread throughout Europe, via the Roman roads, where every country adapted the recipes to their customs and foods. Put it on the table and with a knife stir in two eggs and a little salt.
Put water in a small pan and a piece of fat the size of two good eggs, let it all dissolve together and boil. Afterwards pour it on the flour on the table and make a strong dough and work it well, however you feel is right.
If it is summer, one must take meat broth instead of water and in the place of the fat the skimmings from the broth. When the dough is kneaded, then make of it a round ball and draw it out well on the sides with the fingers or with a rolling pin, so that in the middle a raised area remains, then let it chill in the cold.
Afterwards shape the dough as I have pointed out to you. Also reserve dough for the cover and roll it out into a cover and take water and spread it over the top of the cover and the top of the formed pastry shell and join it together well with the fingers. Leave a small hole. And see that it is pressed together well, so that it does not come open.
Blow in the small hole which you have left, then the cover will lift itself up. Then quickly press the hole closed. Afterwards put it in the oven. Sprinkle flour in the dish beforehand.
Take care that the oven is properly heated, then it will be a pretty pastry. The dough for all shaped pastries is made in this manner. Animated pies or pyes were the most popular banquet entertainment. Rabbits, frogs, turtles, other small animals, and even small people dwarfs were also set into pies, either alone or with birds, to be released when the crust was cut.
The dwarf would emerge and walk down the length of the table, reciting poetry, sketching the guests, or doing tricks. The pastry for the pie should be kneaded strongly, and kneaded with some pepper and oil, and greased, when it is done, with the eggs and saffron. In the 14th to 17th centuries, the sotelty was not always a food, but any kind of entertainment to include minstrels, troubadours, acrobats, dancers and other performers.
The sotelty was used to alleviate the boredom of waiting for the next course to appear and to entertain the guest. If possible, the sotelty was supposed to make the guests gasp with delight and to be amazed at the ingenuity of the sotelty maker. This dish consisted of a cooked peacock mounted in its skin, placed on top of a large pie. Other birds like partridges, swans, bitterns and herons were frequently placed on top of pies for ornament and as a means of identifying the contents.
At the dinner, an enormous crust-covered pie was brought before the royal couple. Before the Queen could cut into the pie, the crust began to rise and from the pie emerged a tiny man, perfectly proportioned boy, but only 18 inches tall named Jeffrey Hudson. Hudson, seven years old and the smallest human being that anyone had ever seen, was dressed in a suit of miniature armor climbed out of a gilded pastry pie stood shyly on the table in front of the Queen and bowed low.
Hudson was later dubbed Lord Minimus. His life after being a court favorite were just as interesting. He was kidnapped by pirates twice. In , his portrait, along with Queen Henrietta Maria, was painted by Sir Anthony Van Dyck , the famous 17th century painter. He spent the next quarter-century as a slave in North Africa.
Then having a pie of the bigness of the hole in the bottome of the coffin aforesaid, you shal put it into the coffin, withall put into the said coffin round about the aforesaid pie as many small live birds as the empty coffin will hold, besides the pie aforesaid. And this is to be at such time as you send the pie to the table, and set before the guests: where uncovering or cutting up the lid of the great pie, all the birds will flie out, which is to delight and pleasure shew to the company.
And because they shall not bee altogether mocked, you shall cut open the small pie, and in this sort you may make many others, the like you may do with a tart. English women were baking pies long before the settlers came to America. The pie was an English specialty that was unrivaled in other European cuisines. Both are topped with potatoes.
The colonist and their pies adapted simultaneously to the ingredients and techniques available to them in the New World. The philosophical era of the Renaissance encourage the development of all the arts and wealthy families. These had money for indulging in there desires of all the good things in life. This funded the brilliant and imaginative bakers to use culinary ideas and techniques with pies. The bakers to the pharaohs , a king who believes he is god, incorporated nuts, honey, and fruits in bread dough, a primitive form of a galettes.
King Ramses ruled from to B. Ramses III of to B. The tradition of galettes, the beginnings of pie, was carried on by the Greeks. These pies were made of a flour and water paste wrapped around meat. This served to cook the meat and seal in the juices. When the Romans defeated Greece, they brought with them Greek culinary foods like the galettes.
The wealthy and educated Romans used many types of meat in every course of the meal, including dessert course secundae mensea. The secunda mensa was a sweet course or dessert, consisting of fruit or sweet pastries. Cato the Younger B. Placenta was more like a cheesecake pie, baked on a pastry base, or sometimes inside a pastry case. The delights of the pie passed from Egypt to classical Greece and then to Rome and the rest of Europe.
The pie was adapted to their customs and food availability as it migrated across the lands. Tortoise or Mullet Pie — Simmer the tortoises lightly in water with salt, then remove from the water and take a little murri, pepper, cinnamon, a little oil, onion juice, cilantro and a little saffron; beat it all with eggs and arrange the tortoises and the mullets in the pie and throw over it the filling.
The pastry for the pie should be kneaded strongly, and kneaded with some pepper and oil, and greased, when it is done, with the eggs and saffron. Apple pie has been around in Europe since the Middle Ages.
Medieval and Renaissance recipes for apple pies or tarts have shown up, in one form or another, in English, French, Italian and German. During Charles V , King of France, reign, gave lavish banquets of food dishes and acts of minstrels, magicians, jugglers, and dancers. Tak gode Applys and gode Spycis and Figys and reysons and Perys and wan they are wel ybrayed colourd with Safron wel and do yt in a cofyn and yt forth to bake wel.
In the 14th to 17th centuries, the sotelty was not always a food, but any kind of entertainment to include minstrels, troubadours, acrobats, dancers and other performers. The sotelty was used to alleviate the boredom of waiting for the next course to appear and to entertain the guest. If possible, the sotelty was supposed to make the guests gasp with delight and to be amazed at the ingenuity of the sotelty maker.
The sotelty was to surprise the guests with delight and to be amazed of the imaginative sotelty maker. At one banquet during the reign of King Charles V, a chef of the Duke of Burgundy created a huge pye with a captive girl inside! Musicians, also inside, played a tune when the pastry was opened. Surprised pies pyes were popular at banquets for entertainment.
To Make Pie That the Birds May Be Alive In them and Flie Out When It Is Cut Up — Make the coffin of a great pie or pastry, in the bottome thereof make a hole as big as your fist, or bigger if you will, let the sides of the coffin bee somwhat higher then ordinary pies, which done put it full of flower and bake it, and being baked, open the hole in the bottome, and take out the flower.
Notice how pies are described as coffins. Then having a pie of the bigness of the hole in the bottome of the coffin aforesaid, you shal put it into the coffin, withall put into the said coffin round about the aforesaid pie as many small live birds as the empty coffin will hold, besides the pie aforesaid.
And this is to be at such time as you send the pie to the table, and set before the guests: where uncovering or cutting up the lid of the great pie, all the birds will flie out, which is to delight and pleasure shew to the company. Live birds! And because they shall not bee altogether mocked, you shall cut open the small pie, and in this sort you may make many others, the like you may do with a tart.
A sixteenth century apple pie From A Propre new booke of Cokery: To make pies of grene apples. Take your apples and pare them cleane and core theim as ye will a Quince then make your coffyne after this maner take a little faire water and halfe a disshe of butter and a little safron and set all this vpon a chafyngdisshe no punctuation and poor spelling till it be hote then temper your flower with this vpon a chafyngdissh till it be hote then temper your floure with this said licour and the white of two egges and also make your coffyn and ceason your apples with Sinamon ginger and suger inough.
Then put them into your coffyn and laie halfe a disshe of butter aboue them and close your coffyn and so bake them. British and American Pies in history: The British were baking pies long before they colonized America. Pies were mostly savory topped with potatoes. First they used berries and fruits that were local to the New World. They used round pans to cut corners and to stretch out their limited ingredients. The pans also tend to be shallow for the same reason.
These pioneer women stated to set the trend of pastry making and making it a form of American culture. Pie was a roughed dish that could handle the diverse temperatures of stoves using wood for heat.
Soon pies took center stage at county fairs, picnics, and other social events. House-pie, in country places is make of apples neither peeled nor freed from the cores, and its crust is not broken if an agon-wheel goes over it!
More than a third of us died on the passage, and when we arrived at Charleston, I was not able to stand. Martha Washington was a fine cook. The book features some of her dishes that were prepared in her colonial kitchen at Mount Vernon. Here one for the pie:. Pie of Sweetbreads — Drop a sweetbread into acidulated, salted boiling water and cook slowly for 20 minutes. Plunge into cold water. Drain and cut into cubes. Stew a pint of oysters until the edges curl.
Add two tablespoons of butter creamed with one tablespoon of flour, one cup cream and the yolks of three eggs well beaten. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Line a deep baking dish with puff paste dough. Put in a layer of oysters, then a layer of sweetbreads until the dish is nearly full.
Pour the sauce over all and put a crust on top. Bake until the paste is a delicate brown. This is one of the most delicate pies that can be made. Fisher, born a black slave, found her way to San Francisco soon after the Civil War. By dint of talent and hard work, she created a life and business there.
Fisher seems to have been supported by kind hearted citizens of San Francisco and Oakland who helped Mrs. Fisher to write and publish her Coconut Pie Recipe in as both she and her husband were illiterate. His long time housekeeper and friend, Katy Leary, baked Huckleberry pie to get her master to eat lunch lunch. She ordered a pie every morning. She said, recalling a period in which Twain was depressed.
He eat half the huckleberry pie, anyway, and drink all the milk. A special dinner was arranged by architect Stanford White As she fed the millionaire, more dancers appeared.
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