tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post1507358975465469545..comments2024-03-24T01:15:08.693+10:00Comments on The Old Foodie: Rules for Pie-bakers in 1379.The Old Foodiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-78666114757957372282013-01-18T06:14:13.245+10:002013-01-18T06:14:13.245+10:00Hi Taika, it was not that geese etc were bad, but ...Hi Taika, it was not that geese etc were bad, but that they were not considered suitable for pasties. <br />'Garbage' generally meant the offal.The Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-67249638824788946612013-01-17T12:38:23.964+10:002013-01-17T12:38:23.964+10:00Do you have any idea why geeses and rabbits were s...Do you have any idea why geeses and rabbits were so bad? And I wonder what did the "garbage" mean? Some less perfect parts of animals like entrails perhaps?Taikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962910011527726985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-57609184559609467282013-01-16T05:40:41.086+10:002013-01-16T05:40:41.086+10:00Hi Gaviota. the book is called
"Memorials of...Hi Gaviota. the book is called <br />"Memorials of London and London life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth centuries" and it is available at Google books - just search for the title and it will come up. Have fun with it!<br />The Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-75553208478354569282013-01-16T05:39:22.321+10:002013-01-16T05:39:22.321+10:00Hi Foose and Carolina - sorry, I missed responding...Hi Foose and Carolina - sorry, I missed responding to your comments - had a massive catch-up after being away briefly over the holidays.<br />Foose - I am not sure - I think pasties tended to be for the bigger pieces of meat such as a whole haunch of venison or a gammon or suchlike. I suspect the prohibition on geese was just that they were not the "accepted" filling. I think "garbage" just meant the offal and maybe the frames.<br />Carolina - I havent seen the TV show you mentioned, but I will see if I can get hold of it.The Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-26678136564382474282013-01-16T05:26:07.711+10:002013-01-16T05:26:07.711+10:00Hi
Is there a link for the complete text online? I...Hi<br />Is there a link for the complete text online? I would love to have it! Thanks! Excellent work!Gaviotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180997223402569087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-1509598059431373762013-01-14T05:35:56.342+10:002013-01-14T05:35:56.342+10:00Hi bklunharuspex. I have no doubt that those heavy...Hi bklunharuspex. I have no doubt that those heavy medieval coffin crusts were eaten - no-one of those times would have wasted such a valuable food resource - but I dont thing the rich would have eaten them (except crumbled up and used as thickeners) - but the servants, or the poor at the gate would have (soaked in the gravy - might have been quite tasty.)<br />How deep was your intentionally edible coffin? did you use hot-water crust pastry?<br />The Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-87278893982822619492013-01-14T05:32:49.114+10:002013-01-14T05:32:49.114+10:00Hi Ken, Great Minds, Huh? Or maybe just synchronic...Hi Ken, Great Minds, Huh? Or maybe just synchronicity at work.<br /><br />The Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-79710245389728761772013-01-13T10:50:12.286+10:002013-01-13T10:50:12.286+10:00This sounds a lot like the pie I made for Thanksgi...This sounds a lot like the pie I made for Thanksgiving. Except for the cranberries -- fourteenth century England had no cranberries. And I like to think that my (deep, coffinlike) crust was edible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-16970034800951765612013-01-13T08:49:08.075+10:002013-01-13T08:49:08.075+10:00I was just talking about this in class. What a coi...I was just talking about this in class. What a coincidence. Ken Albalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16379852662105383295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-42478390299383667312013-01-11T17:00:53.529+10:002013-01-11T17:00:53.529+10:00The Forme of Cury is a marvelous little book. I of...The Forme of Cury is a marvelous little book. I often make its "Peeres in Confyt." Have you seen the three-part TV series that Clarissa Dickson Wright did on it? She made three or four dishes, then invited several experts to join her in eating them. Afterwards, the one woman said, "So much for bland English food!" Love that! HUZZAH!carolinahttp://www.historiccookery.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-2814516039388552012013-01-11T13:47:20.564+10:002013-01-11T13:47:20.564+10:00What's wrong with rabbit pie? Or goose pie (a...What's wrong with rabbit pie? Or goose pie (a tad unusual, but I suppose it could be something like chicken pie)? Is it just in cases where they're sold as "something else" or a flat ban on the rabbit and geese varieties? And if the latter, why?<br /><br />Also, I think I remember some book that said "garbage" had a different meaning in the Middle Ages, so maybe it's not quite so revolting as this passage might otherwise suggest.Foosenoreply@blogger.com