RAISED-PIE MOULDS

A fine early 19th-century raised-pie mould engraved with the cypher of the Earl of Harewood, from the kitchen of Harewood House, near Leeds, chased with satyr masks between acanthus scrolls on each side

A magnificent pie made from the Harewood mould by Ivan Day, the cover decorated with ferns moulded from one of his many treen pie boards

A variety of copper and tinned-iron raised-pie moulds and some of my first attempts at pie-making.

A rare pre-Victorian hand-chased copper pie or pudding mould in the form of a hedgehog, and a pie made from it. No, sorry, it isn't made with hedgehogs.

A short-crust minced beef steak pie with lattice-work top made using a pastry jigger, the edge decorated with rosettes from the rosette print on this 17th-century Italian bronze jigger.

"Fried Paste Marvels" made by the author to a recipe in The Royal Book of Pastry and Confectionery by Jules Gouffe, London 1874, page 426, calling for the use of a "Wheel Cutter", from a copy courtesy of the Ivan Day Collection.   

PASTRIES

"Puits d'Amour", literally Wells of Love, cut out of puff pastry with a pastry jigger, filled with a raspberry conserve, from The Court and Country Confectioner, by Mr Borella, London, 1772, from a copy courtesy the Ivan Day Collection, displayed on a contemporay sycamore trencher.