Stonehenge mince pies

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/01/stonehenge-builders-may-have-enjoyed-mince-pies

[DBS]

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... 

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Aetius]

Would like to try the recipe even though it is not authentic...

John

[Erpingham]

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?

[Mick Hession]

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

[Jim Webster]

I'm not sure the last time I saw 'could' and 'may' so often in such a short article!

[DBS]

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. 

[Mark G]

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

[Imperial Dave]

now you're talking!