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Eating Christmas Pie at Mount Vernon was customary in the Washington household.

In 1786, George Washington described the holiday meal as "the Attack of Christmas Pyes." He elaborated, "We had one yesterday on which all the company (and pretty numerous it was) were hardly able to make an impression."⁣

Standing pies (pies that stand up without the aid of pie tins, moulds or hoops) required a tremendous amount of coordination and preparation amongst the enslaved cooks of Mansion House, at that time led by Hercules Posey. Given the poultry boning and other preliminary steps involved, it could take at least two days to put together.

Try this modern adaptation of an 18th-century recipe: https://bit.ly/3EfsArx

(Image Credits)
Yorkshire Christmas Pie in "Dining with the Washingtons: Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon," Nancy Carter Crump, c. 2011. George Washington's Mount Vernon.

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