Monochrome Monday

by 100 Country Trek

1920 – Cape Breton Pork Pies don’t contain pork, but they do resemble. The origin of this tiny tart, a shortbread base, filled with dates and topped with a carefully piped cap of maple icing is unknown, although some credit Acadians for inspiring them.

Dates have been grown in the middle east and Asia for thousands of years, during that time they became ‘staple’ in the diet of the region and spread as an imported food to other areas of the world. North American cultivated dates began appearing in the 1920s, just in time for the Cape Breton Pork Pie.

I am baking these Pork Pies and so delicious

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  8. Looking at the Dominion Coal photograph above, I’m thinking perhaps they are from Yorkshire and maybe having a bit of fun … I’m wondering if they are mocking cockney slang where “Pork Pies” means lies!
    Kind of like Surprise Chicken … surprise, there’s no chicken 😉

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