https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/01/stonehenge-builders-may-have-enjoyed-mince-pies
I have seen some desperate press releases in my career, believe me, but I think English Heritage have just set a new standard by which PR desperation can and should be judged... :D
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Would like to try the recipe even though it is not authentic...
John
Quote from: Aetius on December 01, 2021, 03:36:15 PM
Would like to try the recipe even though it is not authentic...
John
I suspect that, with access to a supermarket, you'll have more success making these in midwinter than a Neolithic person would. Also, your electric fan oven will be rather more controllable than whatever "oven" a Neolithic person could put together . A upturned pot on a stone covered in embers?
Quote from: Erpingham on December 01, 2021, 04:43:04 PM
Quote from: Aetius on December 01, 2021, 03:36:15 PM
Would like to try the recipe even though it is not authentic...
John
I suspect that, with access to a supermarket, you'll have more success making these in midwinter than a Neolithic person would. Also, your electric fan oven will be rather more controllable than whatever "oven" a Neolithic person could put together . A upturned pot on a stone covered in embers?
An earth oven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_oven needs even less kit. And if a Neolithic potter can fire a pot I suspect they'd manage pastry somehow.
Cheers
Mick
I'm not sure the last time I saw 'could' and 'may' so often in such a short article!
I strongly suspect that if a Neolithic person had arrived at Stonehenge with a few mince pies or energy bars, when everyone else had turned up with a herd of pigs for the feast, there would have been no problem selecting who was going to be spread-eagled on the Altar Stone that solstice. :o
Especially if they were mince pies from Tesco.
Now if he had gotten the good ones from Sainsbury, it might have been a harder choice
now you're talking!