SC - Yeast dough instead of pastry
Bonne
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 30 20:48:07 PDT 1998
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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