Chickweed Pie

This very old recipe was never written down until I convinced an elderly cousin of mine to work through it so that I could weigh and measure step-by-step. I am certain that the pie was originally baked in a yeast-raised crust, but sometime in the nineteenth century there was a shift to short pastry. I now have the redware dish that my cousin used all her life to bake the pie in. After I had baked in it myself several times, I was startled to learn from a ceramics specialist that it dated fr