[Sca-cooks] Payn puff circa 1450
wheezul at canby.com
wheezul at canby.com
Fri Dec 10 10:41:01 PST 2010
I have a question about this. When I read the recipe I get the idea that
this is more like a stuffed sweet yeast bread than a rolled pastry with
filling. Although the other recipes may clarify method more? And that's
assuming I'm understanding what the redactions have been. And, I have the
impression that payn means bread?
I decided to investigate what schapmonde meant in the OED. When that
didn't reap any result I thought to puzzle out the component parts of the
word which is something I find helpful working in German.
Schap - perhaps this could be 'chap' with the meaning cracked or fissured?
(Think chapped lips).
Monde was listed as a form of 'mound' a rounded or globe shape.
What if a schapmonde was a round loaf of bread where the edges were folded
together along the top of the loaf which when baked would be the 'chap' or
fissure? Thinking of a German stollen - a sweet yeast bread with
candied/dried fruit inside that has a fissured top (an image below)
http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TOH/Images/Photos/37/exps3323_CW0820C31C.jpg
The OED gives pain puff as a kind of light bread - here's this latin quote
from 1419 - does it give any clues?
"Panis levis qui dicitur pouf mercatoriis, debet esse de eodem bultello
et pondere quo wastellus."
Then there is this quote: "a1425 (1399) Forme of Cury 204 in C. B. Hieatt
& S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 145 *Payn puff. Eodem modo flat payn
puff, but make it more tendre (th)e past." It sounds from this that
flattening the dough is an alternative for a flat form where one should
modify the dough somewhat.
Just curious today,
Katherine
& take ye
> forseyde paste &
>
> make cakys of a schapmonde brede. Take a porcion of ye same stuffe
> & put hit ynne,
>
> and take & wete ye sydes with water & lappe hit togedyr upyzt, &
> sete hit in an hote
>
> ovenne & loke to hit for brennynge.
>
> From CB Hieatt's A Gathering of Recipes. 2008. This recipe remained
> unpublished until publication of this volume.
> Johnnae
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