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| | Food Timeline: history notes-pie & pastry |
 | | For the florentine...the paste had to be driven out so thin that ye may blow it up from the table, laid in a shallow buttered platter, and filled with a mixture of chopped veal kidneys, sometimes spinach, herbs, spices, dried fruits and sugar...Really rich butter paste was eaten by itself. |
 | | The paste was divided into two or three pieces, and drive out the piece with a rolling pin, and do with butter one piece by another, and then fold up your paste upon the butter and drive it out again, and so do five or six times together. |
 | | Take one pound of puff pastes; cut it into as many pieces as you require pasties; roll out in a circular form, and put the fruit on one half, turn the other half over on the fruit, and pinch the edge, which should first be wetted with white of egg. |
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