SC - fish (OP)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Perhaps the corpus of recipes are meant for the noble's table, while the
illustration depicts the 'blue-collar lunch pail', or 'fast food
on-the-go'. The pastie or modern fruit pie shape would fit in ones's
wallet far more easily than a whole coffin, or even a slice of one.

Seumas

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> 
> Morgan Cain wrote:
> 
> > I meant in terms of shape, not filling.  Most period pies, at least in the
> > recipes I have seen, have a "coffyn" of some type and do not indicate the
> > turnover-style of pastry used in a pasty.  Of course, I've been a bit
> > focused of late (strawberry pie A&S entry in the works).
> 
> It may not say so in the recipes that we have in our current corpus,
> however, there are period illustrations showing folks eating what look
> for all the world like Hostess Fruit Pies. My favorite is on a French
> ivory, late 14th c., and it shows the fellow with the pie in his hand,
> with a bite out of it, and his mouth is obviously full...
> 
> 'Lainie
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