Game pie [SEP] country of origin
Roman Empire. Wilhelm Adolf Becker states that the emperor Augustus consumed pies that contained chicken, pheasants, pigeon, and duck.
In the Middle Ages, "bake mete" described a pie in which meat or fish is baked with fruit, spices, etc. The meats and sauces were placed in a tough and inedible pastry shell, or "coffin" with a lid sealed on, then baked. There was no pan: the pie shell itself acted as the container. Frequently the pastry was considered superfluous and was
pie containing live birds, perhaps the origin of the rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence".
The game pies of that period were sweeter than in later times, often containing fruit as well as meat, game and spices.
The Tudor Christmas Pie was a rich pie of traditional birds such as partridge, chicken and goose with a recent addition, the turkey, which had been introduced to England from the New World in 1523.
Game pie was not restricted to the rich.
Until the 1816 Gaming