Trudy Kawami wrote: > So this may be behind a 19th century Wisconsin diary comment I read that > described the apple pie as being big as a wagon wheel & twice as hard? > I think that's just being economical with the lard. Huff paste was made of flour and water and sometimes a trace of suet, and was very hard indeed. According to Wikipedia, huff paste survives in the 'Devizes pie': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devizes_pie I had never heard of this. RH ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH