[SCA] Purim cooking

[cellio]

Tonight I did a trial run of one of the recipes for the Purim event, a fish pie. The ones for the event will not all be as whimsical as this, but one probably will be.



(The tail "fins" slipped in cooking.) I'm not sure what to use for the eye. I'm thinking maybe a green grape (or half of one), but I didn't have any in the house.

I seem to have zero talent for pie crust. The first problem is that it was kind of tough (I mean even before baking); I understand that this means I kneaded it too long, but the line between "not yet one coherent ball of dough" and "over-kneaded" is, in that case, way too fine. As soon as it all held together I stopped.

I assume my problems rolling it out are related to this. I couldn't get it as thin as I wanted. It just wouldn't go, after a while. I suppose I should go looking for "pie crust 101" on Wikipedia or something.

Comments

Scales

[misoranomegami.livejournal.com]

Sorry random person passing through...

If you wanted to try something differet for the scales you could make the dough a little thicker and then do a series of snips with some kitchen sheers. That way you have little raised triangular bits standing up that you don't have to cut and attach by hand and if you wanted more definition you could squish them with your thumb to shape them individually.

Re: Scales

[cellio]

Thanks for the suggestion! That sounds like it would look really spiffy. (Nothing beats "scales" that are actually attached, after all.)

Oh, and if I had any problem with random people passing through, I wouldn't post things for the world to see. No need to apologize.