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MERRY GOURMET MINIATURES
1/12^th Scale miniature replica English
Food from the Medieval, Tudor,
Georgian and Victorian times.

Interesting Facts On

Tudor Dining Foods

Tudor Kitchen Foods

Georgian Dining Foods

Georgian Kitchen Foods

Victorian Dining Foods

Victorian Kitchen Foods

Market Baskets
thru the ages

Articles and Social History Insights from Aileen
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A Word About Pastry

Now a mainstay of our dessert tables, when it first appeared
in our kitchens it was just a coarse paste of rough flour and
water made by hand into a thick standing 'coffyn' and used
as a container to cook and serve stews and fish, it was not
eaten but discarded after the meal.


Over the years pastry making improved with the addition
of butter, lard or suet until by Elizabethan times, while the standing 'coffyns' were still being used, pastry was being
rolled out much thinner and providing cases for small
savoury pies and fruit tarts in which the pastry was eaten
as part of the dish.

Puff pastry made its appearance from Italy and by the
middle of the eighteenth century recipes were beginning
to appear in cookery books using pastry fortified with eggs
or cream for a richer mixture, followed in the nineteenth
century by the addition of sugar to make sweet pastry
for continental type flans and tartlets.

Aileen Tucker
May 2010

All our miniature food items are hand made with slight variations in colour and texture. All items shown are for dolls house food and miniature food collectors, they are not toys and are not suitable for small children. care has been taken in the production of our replica food but some substances used may be harmful to small children.

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