Delicious Fish & Fowl Pies - Gourmet Meat & Vegetarian Pies (Set of 53) | Perfect for Family Dinners, Parties & Holiday Gatherings

Historical rabbit holes, for those who are inclined.

These slender booklets from Historical Management Associates are the work of an organization dedicated to historical re-enactment in the UK. They are written with a stickler’s attention to historical precision and a conviction that nothing is too arcane to investigate. Some of the books are simple transcriptions of period manuscripts; others represent significant original research, as in Cattle Farming and Grazing Management, which is 52 pages long but cites 36 sources, many of them published in the 17th century.

The Food and Cookery in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England series presents a systematic survey of existing records of ingredients and equipment employed in the period. In addition to concise explanations of how such items might have been used and how they might have been significantly different from what is implied by current terminology, they include citations from various period and later records to demonstrate the geographic and class distribution of everything from hops to decorative tankards.

From the introduction: “This volume covers recipes for hot meat pies made with fish or birds and in the later part all non meat based pies both hot and cold.  These are primarily fruit or dairy based…Non meat pies are not necessarily vegetarian and may contain suet but meat is not the defining ingredient.  Pastry recipes will be found in .”

Staplebound pamphlet. 60 pages. Sketches and black-and-white photographs.