Before apple pies there were ‘tartys in applis’: pastry tart cases, or ‘coffins’, full of ground apples, pears, figs and raisins, enlivened with ‘good spices’. The recipe for these apple tarts is from an English collection found in a late fourteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (Douce MS. 257, at folios 86r-96v).
Video
I recreate my Modern|Medieval version of the dish in my new YouTube video (click on ‘Watch on YouTube’, bottom left, for best viewing experience):
Recipe
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MONK'S MODERN MEDIEVAL CUISINE 