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

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