[Sca-cooks] coffin or pie

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

Greetings,

In order to better understand the discussion on coffins (or pies) I 
decided to make one. You can see a picture at:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~ldh/aoghann/pie.jpg

So, what is the difference between a coffin and a pie? Is it that with a 
pie you are intended to eat the crust and with a coffin you are not? (A 
coffin is the medieval version of the roasting bag?)

Anyway, the pie in the picture is filled with the chicken filling used 
in the Lombard Pastellum recipe in the Complete Anachronist booklet on 
French cooking.  It came out quite well (if I do say so myself), and 
there was none left after the covered trencher last night.

Aoghann