SC - Notes re Quinces in Paste

Wed Oct 25 21:58:04 PDT 2000

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At 9:46 PM -0400 10/25/00, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>david friedman wrote:
>>
>>  Do we know that it was round?
>
>Assuming the recipe is any guide, yes. It says something like, make
>fayre round coffins.

"Take and make nice round piecrusts of good pastry"

Chiquart's version says:

"And then let him go to the pastry-cooks and order from them the 
little crusts of the said pastries to put into each of the said 
little crusts three quinces or four or more."

Also, Chiquart boils his quinces first.

>  > Maybe the bottom crust is shaped to the quinces, not to the coffin?
>>  So you essentially have two cooked quinces wrapped in pastry sitting
>>  in the coffin?
>
>Could Your Grace be confusing a coffin with a trap, by any chance?

Indeed I was.

>
>  By the way, other than the fact
>that what I got was probably grown in New York State, I have no idea of
>what the variety was. Mine were pretty big, maybe 5-6 inches in
>equatorial diameter, close to seven inches along the stem axis. Does
>that jibe with what you're growing?

It's night time, so I'm not running out to measure them; I think ours 
are a little smaller than that. But yours sound like what we have 
bought and used in the past.
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<div>At 9:46 PM -0400 10/25/00, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>david friedman wrote:<br>
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> Do we know that it was round?<br>
<br>
Assuming the recipe is any guide, yes. It says something like,
make<br>
fayre round coffins.</blockquote>
<div><br></div>
<div>"Take and make nice round piecrusts of good
pastry"</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Chiquart's version says:</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">"And then let him go to the
pastry-cooks and order from them the little crusts of the said
pastries to put into each of the said little crusts three quinces or
four or more."</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Also, Chiquart boils his quinces first.</div>
<div><br></div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>> Maybe the bottom crust is shaped to
the quinces, not to the coffin?<br>
> So you essentially have two cooked quinces wrapped in pastry
sitting<br>
> in the coffin?<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Could Your Grace be confusing a coffin
with a trap, by any chance?</blockquote>
<div><br></div>
<div>Indeed I was.<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> By the way, other than the
fact</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>that what I got was probably grown in
New York State, I have no idea of<br>
what the variety was. Mine were pretty big, maybe 5-6 inches in<br>
equatorial diameter, close to seven inches along the stem axis.
Does</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>that jibe with what you're
growing?</blockquote>
<div><br></div>
<div>It's night time, so I'm not running out to measure them; I think
ours are a little smaller than that. But yours sound like what we
have bought and used in the past.</div>

<div>-- <br>
David/Cariadoc<br>
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/</div>
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