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To make fine pippen Tarts

Originally posted on Cooking in the Archives:
Today it feels like fall on the east coast. The Philadelphia weather on Wednesday reminded me of September heat-waves in California (when I made this lemonade), but today, apparently, fall is here. In September I braved the weekend heat to pick apples at Linvilla Orchard and, as usual,…

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Apples by Van Gogh

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Pan Pies

So after finding Pot Pies, it seems only right that I should notice PAN PIES   “Where a brick oven is used, the following is a good receipt. Take a potters ware pan, that will hold a gallon, and fill it with apples, quartered and cored; in winter pare the apples; roll out a piece… Read More Pan Pies

July 26, 2017July 22, 2017 Kathleen M. WallLeave a comment

POT-PIE AND PANDOWDY

and a little cobbler, too. Back to Apple Pie. New Categories – pot-pies, pan-dowdies, cobblers. Buckles, Bettye, Crisps, Slumps and Grunts are all coming up too. And what about dumplings and rolley-polleys? They too will appear. Apple Pot Pies first. I’ve been spending time with Miss Leslie’s Directions for Cookery First edition: 1837. Subsequent editions… Read More POT-PIE AND PANDOWDY

July 19, 2017July 17, 2017 Kathleen M. Wall1 Comment

Rabbit or Rarebit?

First, hitting the books The recipes, by century 18th century 1747 To make a Scotch rabbit, toast the bread very nicely on both sides, butter it, cut a slice of cheese about as big as the bread, toast it on both sides, and lay it on the bread. -1747. Hannah Glasse. The Art of Cookery […]

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June 11, 2017 Kathleen M. Wall2 Comments

Haggas

Because there’s more then one way to spell just about everything in the 17th century From Robert May The Accomplist Cook,   To make a Haggas Pudding. Take a calves chaldron being well scowred or boiled, mince it being cold, very fine and small, then take four or five eggs, and leave out half the… Read More Haggas

February 1, 2017January 30, 2017 Kathleen M. WallLeave a comment

Haggis: Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!

 January 25 1759 is the birthday of Robert Burns. Many will celebrate with the piping in of a haggis. Among other things, Burns wrote a Ode, or Address to a Haggis. Address To A Haggis 1786 Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race! Aboon them a’ yet tak your place, Painch,… Read More Haggis: Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!

January 25, 2017January 22, 2017 Kathleen M. WallLeave a comment

Pumpkin Pie – 18th & 19th century

  Squashes – A.N. Duchesne, 18th century (French) ‘A Pumpkin Pie Pare a Pumpkin, and take the seedy part of it out; then cut it into slices; Pare and core a quarter of an hundred apples, and cut them into slices. Make some good Paste with an Egg, and lay some around the Brim of… Read More Pumpkin Pie – 18th & 19th century

November 30, 2016November 27, 2016 Kathleen M. WallLeave a comment

Pumpion Pie : 17th century English recipes

Still Life with Fruit – Caravaggio 1601 1653 Tourte of pumpkin. Boile it with good milk, pass it through a straining pan very thick, and mix it with sugar, butter, a little salt and if you will, a few stamped almonds; let all be very thin. Put it in your sheet of paste; bake it.… Read More Pumpion Pie : 17th century English recipes

November 23, 2016November 21, 2016 Kathleen M. WallLeave a comment

Pumpkin Pie 21st century

pumpkin pie in a pumpkin as it appeared on the Today Show Nov. 16, 2016 Three seems to be a persistent myth that the Pilgrims  made their Pumpkin Pie in Pumpkin Shells…..let me assure you, that 17th century has plenty of experience of putting just about everything into a pie, so pastry was no real… Read More Pumpkin Pie 21st century

November 21, 2016 Kathleen M. WallLeave a comment

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