[Sca-cooks] Re: Coffyns

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
wrote:

> Okay, this does make sense. Anyone have the OED
> definition handy for "coffyn" or "coffin"?

[ME. cofin, coffyn, etc., a. OF. cofin, coffin,
little basket, case, etc., ad. L. cophin-us 
(later cofin-us), a. Gr.  basket.] 

  4. Cookery.    a. A mould of paste for a pie;
the crust of a pie. Obs. 
 
  c1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 41 Make a cofyne as
to smalle pye. c1420 Cookery Bk. 45 Make fayre
past of flowre & water, Sugre, & Safroun, & Salt;
& an make fayre round cofyns δer-of. 1588
SHAKES. Tit. A. V. ii. 189 Of the paste a coffen
I will reare. a1654 SELDEN Table-t. (Arb.) 33 The
Coffin of our Christmas Pies in shape long, is in
imitation of the Cratch. 1750 E. SMITH Compl.
Housewife 157 Season your lamb with pepper,
salt..So put it into your coffin.

    b. A pie-dish or mould. Obs. 
 
  1580 in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 225 Twelve
voyders; a Custerd coffyn. 1596 SHAKES. Tam. Shr.
IV. iii. 82. 1602 PLAT Delightes for Ladies,
Coffins of white plate. a1662 HEYLIN Laud II. 302
Which Notes..he kept in the Coffin of a Pye, 
which had been sent him by his Mother.
 
Huette




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