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Cake – a symbol of comfort and coziness. Egyptians began to prepare the first pies in the dough from oats or wheat put the filling of fruit and honey. Today cakes can be found in all cuisines of the world, and the recipe for your perfect pie is in almost every cooking book. Interesting fact that a wedding cake also descended from pie.
The first pies were replacement for the dishes
In ancient times, the pie could be called almost any dish. The fact that in ancient times the dough was used as detergent for other ingredients or as a container for storage. It is noteworthy that in this “pie” was eaten only the filling and the dough were thrown out or were distributed to the poor. Structure of pie-dishes was very callous, and it was almost impossible not to macerate it.
The most expensive pie
The most expensive cake in history was prepared at the restaurant of Fence Gate Inn in Lancashire. Filling meals consisted of Wagyu beef, mushrooms, and matsutake, black truffles, “blue stem” came from France and sauce prepared with two bottles of vintage wine Chateau Mouton Rothschild harvest in 1982. The cake was decorated with edible gold leaf. 8 people sharing the cost paid for the cake 1024 pounds. This dish was listed in the Guinness Book of records.
Shakespeare pies
Researchers who studied the works and life of Shakespeare, has estimated that the death of the heroes of the works of the writer occurred in 74 scenarios. Two of them took place in a rather unusual way: they were killed, baked in a pie and served up for a feast.
Championship of eating pies
Since 1992, Harry’s bar in Wigan hosts the annual championship of eating pies. The champion is the one who for some time had eaten the biggest amount of pies. In 2006, the rules changed: to become the winner of the championship, you have to eat just one pie in the shortest amount of time.
The Oscar-winning pie
In 1947, Oscar in the category “best animated short” was the work of Fritz Freeling called “Tweety Pie”. The plot of the animated film the cat chases the chick to eat it.
Pies outside the law
In 1644 Oliver Cromwell banned pies because they considered him one of the symbols of paganism. Outlaws were only those cakes that were baked for Christmas. The decree was lifted in 1660.
Pie universe
Renowned American astrophysicist and astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to make an Apple pie from scratch, you must first create the whole world.”
Original recipes
There are hundreds different pie recipes. In California even a contest Strange Pie Contest, by definition, most original, strange and non-traditional pie recipe. There are, for example, recipes with peanut butter and pickles; French fries, bacon and mayonnaise; candied pepper and chocolate.
King’s cake
On the ancient British tradition on every anniversary, or the coronation of residents Gloster send the Royal family fish pie of lampreys. For the first time this offering was brought in the middle ages – the lamprey was once considered a special dish.
Cakes with a surprise
In the middle ages for dinner parties they made special cakes with vibrant filling. The cake was filled with frogs, squirrels, foxes, pigeons, swans and other animals or birds. The cake was supposed to amuse and entertain the guests at the table: when it’s cut open, animals and birds effectively jumped out and flew in different directions.
Pie chambers. records
The first giant pie the size of 25 meters was made in 1989, spending on the dish a 500 kg of sugar. But it didn’t get to the book of records. In the same year, was already prepared and was the largest grape pie with an area of over 110 square meters.
On the island of Cyprus in 2000 was cooked Christmas cake with a length of 120 meters and weighing 2 tons. Eight years later, the Greeks of Serres baked layer cake with a length of 20 meters and weighing 120 pounds. The largest of the strawberry pies was made in Germany, in the town of Rovershagen.
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