how to make an ancient Greek pie @chalkehistoryfestival

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[SewardWriter]

Using rosemary to apply the egg wash blew my mind, and I've been baking for 45 years.

[lester]

Appreciate the note about the eggwash :) impossible to ascertain the historicity, but a simple deduction like that alongside a note is such a neat little example of subjectivity in historiography

[ogrynmod]

in greece we are still making these and are dead easy

[ksexton]

I may be over reacting but I'm obsessed with the fact that he used rosemary as a basting brush to apply the egg wash. Now I have to grow my own rosemary bush so I can throw my brush away.❤

[gm]

Lovely we make similar dishes still in Greece especially in Crete where we use soft goats fresh cheese in filo pastry and once fried in olive oil we drizzle it with honey, cinnamon powder and toasted sesame ❤

[GAB-vqre]

I literally only clicked to see what sort of magical medieval sorcery was bestowed upon his head. That hat is wild. 😂

[savagefracer]

Very similar to Polish and Slavic pierogi, which came a lot later. The Greeks sure knew how to innovate.

[Xander]

My Greek grandmother made something very similar for me when I was a kid . Delicious.
Happy Memories 😊

[caesarsalad]

One thing I love about history is that pretty much every culture, everywhere, came up with or adapted the idea of putting fillings inside of carbs and cooking them. Dumplings, pierogi, empanadas, samosas...whatever you want to call them, they're universal.

[IamtheResistance]

I love that you even cook it like they would. I've seen a few others that do this kind of food content, but they use modern stuff to assist in making it.

[maryeliason]

Soak the figs first (they tend to be chewy). Looks delish

[eleanorcooke]

Do you have a full length video or recipe? I like to collect nice recipes like this because my uni has Ancient World Society where we being rhings like this.

[valorwarrior]

Egyptians also have their tigernut cone cakes with the same fillings in the insides and date and honey syrup drizzles on the outside.

[stickcrawler]

fun fact we still make this in greece but it's a bit different and it's caleed tiropitakia aka small cheese pies

[shirleypacai]

That's impressive, the rosemary kitchen brush.

[D.x.-]

How I never knew that?!? And here I am, 18 years of my life here in Greece

[ShannonMichelle]

YUM 😋 And I love the rosemary brush technique. Very cool ❤

[melissawardjohns]

Love the rosemary used to wash the pies for extra flavor and efficient use of whatever is available 🎉

[sourgummiez]

Omg please give us more food videos like this! ❤

[Apollo_Dionysus_Hermes]

That looks delicious! Is there a recipe for the dough I could find? I would love to make these for the Solstice!