[Sca-cooks] Chastletes - help please

[Elaine Koogler]

We did this for a Coronation a couple of years back.  I think what we did was to
make the whole thing a lot smaller than the measurements call for.  There may be
a picture and description in "To the King's Taste"...it comes out looking like a
castle, with pies of three or four different types serving as the towers.

Kiri

Christina Nevin wrote:

> My mental TV screen just isn't getting this one! Here's what I have so far:
>
> ConI: FoC p.142-3  (|> = thorn)
> "Chastletes. Take and make a foyle of gode past with a rollere of a foot
> brode, & lynger by cumpas. Make iiii coffyns of |>e self past vppn |>e
> rollere |>e gretnesse of |>e smale of |>yn arme of vi ynche dep; make |>e
> gretust in |>e myddell. Fasten |>e foile in |>e mouth vpwarde, & fasten |>e
> o|>ere four in euery side..."
>
> the recipe goes on to carve battlements, cook the pastry and dictate the
> fillings. My rough redaction;
>
> "Chatletes. Take and make a leaf of good pastry with a rolling pin, a foot
> broad and twice as long (?). Make four coffins of the same pastry, upon the
> rolling pin, the length of a forearm and six inches deep; (are we talking
> width here or thickness?) make the biggest (ie the first piece of pastry) in
> the middle. Fasten the pastry leaf in the mouth upward, and fasten the other
> four in every side..."
>
> So is this shaped like a cross? (I'm guessing round isn't gonna work!)
> Raised sides all 'round? Has anyone made this? It sounds too big to get in a
> modern oven in one piece. Did you do it seperately?
>
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