SC - Yeast dough instead of pastry

[Bonne]

Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 7/30/98 6:59:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> oftraquair at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> <<  I read years ago, I think
>  > > in one of Elizabeth David's books, that yeast dough was used for
>  > > "coffins".
>  > > Was this speculation on her part, since proved yea or nay?
>  > >
>  > > Bonne
>  > > >>
> 
> I doubt if the word "coffin" has the connotation you think.  A "coffin" is a
> box like container.  It has only recently come to almost exclusively mean a
> holder of dead remains.  A bread trencher is close to a "coffin," so I do not
> think it would be a stretch to picture bread "coffins" as serving dishes,
> perhaps.
> 
> Mordonna

I've seen coffin or cofyn relatively often used to mean a pie shell like
container and that was my meaning.  I certainly did not think anyone was being
put to their eternal rest in a loaf of bread! 

Bonne
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