Pie by Janet Clarkson

Author:Janet Clarkson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

Sinister pies, the meat provided by the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, from the film Sweeney Todd (2007).

Mermaid-Pye

Take a Pig, scald it, and bone it; and having dried it well with a Cloath, season it with beaten Nutmeg, Pepper, and chop’d Sage; then take two Neats-Tongues; when dried and cold after boiling, and slice them in lengths, and as thick as a Half-Crown, and lay a quarter of your Pig in a square or round Pye, and the slices of the Tongue on it; then another quarter, and more Tongue: and thus do four times double, and lay over all these some slices of Bacon, scatter a few Cloves, put in some pieces of Butter and Bay-leaves, then bake it; and when it is so, fill it up with pieces of sweet Butter, and make your Past white of the Butter and Flower. This Pig, or Mermaid-Pye, so called, is to be eaten cold.

On an entirely different note, there is a type of pie strongly associated with Scotland which has aesthetic and health dangers that justify its inclusion here amongst the sinister pies. It is the Fried Pie – which is just what it says, a baked pie cooked a second time by frying. Scotland is not called the Land of the Brave for nothing.

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