In the nursery rhyme how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?

Great info. I never knew the true meaning.

It would not be a jester asking for this as a joke. Feasting parties by aristocrats were very lavish affairs. Sometimes lasting days. They almost always commissioned the cooks to put together surprise food items to surprise and delight the guests. Such things as a pie crust filled with birds or toads were quite common. As well as stitching together various animal parts to create chimera type creatures. Example, a pigs head could be sewn to a body of a sheep etc

My grandmother taught my cousins and me this nursery rhyme when we were little kids.

crap!! I couldn't recall the song, brain went blank!!