Spent the afternoon in the old hometown today, drinking coffee and wandering from bookstore to bookstore. I did not find another pie cookbook, but I did have dinner with my parents. After-dinner ramblings usually take an interesting turn at my folk's place (embarrassing family stories and all that). This time, inspired by my upcoming trip to England, Dad pulled out my grandfather's genealogy notebooks and... it is highly probably that I am a direct descendant of the "Sargent of the Pastry" to Queen Elizabeth I. That doesn't mean he could make pie himself, but it does mean that one year, in the traditional stack of gifts to the Queen for the New Year, was a gilded quince pie from my family. My fascination for Elizabeth I is equal to my fascination with pie, so this was fantastic news, and I had to blog about it.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Pie... it's a genetic predisposition
Spent the afternoon in the old hometown today, drinking coffee and wandering from bookstore to bookstore. I did not find another pie cookbook, but I did have dinner with my parents. After-dinner ramblings usually take an interesting turn at my folk's place (embarrassing family stories and all that). This time, inspired by my upcoming trip to England, Dad pulled out my grandfather's genealogy notebooks and... it is highly probably that I am a direct descendant of the "Sargent of the Pastry" to Queen Elizabeth I. That doesn't mean he could make pie himself, but it does mean that one year, in the traditional stack of gifts to the Queen for the New Year, was a gilded quince pie from my family. My fascination for Elizabeth I is equal to my fascination with pie, so this was fantastic news, and I had to blog about it.
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Wow..I'm really Impressed...was that on the B side of the Family?
that'd be the dudley side (aka the suttons of dudley castle). i believe a ball married a dudley (the woman i was named after actually, "crazy grandma katherine"). there was a line back to charlemagne as well... but i suppose that's much like being related to attila the hun... pretty darn likely if you lived in a conquered area. my family tree also includes poor henry VIII's pious, divorced catherine of aragon. i find unearthing all these ghosts just before halloween kind of interesting... and a bit disturbing.
Is that a Queen Liz fabric doll you own? She is fabulous. I have fabric QE Christmas ornament made by Gladys Bault, actually have all the Brit royalty.
Congrats, Your Highness! ;-}
sadly joan, it's not something i own, but a pic stolen from the web. *however* it did make we want to do an iron-on version... and now that you've mentioned christmas ornaments... i'm envisioning henry the 8th (nasty old man) and wives with detachable heads. perhaps not on the christmas tree.
Kate, here's the QE that I have:
http://shop.1asecure.com/index.cfm?currentpage=8&DeptNo=67&StID=279. Henry VIII is on page 6. I've had these for almost 20 yrs. I have many of the American historical characters as well as the Brits. Now I see a new Joan of Arc and I may need to get her. If you search on my blog for "Gladys Boalt", you can see them on my tree last Christmas.
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