[Sca-cooks] Re: Coffyns

[Terry Decker]

All of these appear to bave been baked in a form.  Woodcuts from about 200 
years earlier show pastries being baked in round deep walled dishes 
(trappes).  These look suspiciously like what would come out of the dishes 
in the woodcut.

Bear


> As for the thickness, check out the pictures below.  In each the crust is 
> notably thin (with parts missing, which I assume have been eaten).
>
> Still-life with Turkey-Pie, Pieter Claesz (c. 1630)
> http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-a-4646.z
>
> Breakfast Still-Life, Willem Claesz Heda (1637)
> http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/h/heda/breakfa.jpg
>
> Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie, Willem Claesz Heda (1631)
> http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/h/heda/breakfas.jpg
>
> - Doc