sentences:  “Live birds were slipped into a baked pie shell through a hole cut in its bottom.” The unwary guest would release the flapping birds once the upper crust was cut into.At the end of the Middle Ages, the level of refinement among the noble and royal courts of Europe had increased considerably, and the demands of powerful hosts and their rich dinner guests resulted in ever more complicated and elaborate creations.Chiquart, cook to Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, described an entremets entitled "Castle of Love" in his 15th-century culinary treatise "Du fait de cuisine" ("On cookery").