Heart to Hearth Cookery

The receipt (recipe) To bake Mellacattons (peaches) directs that the pie (coffin) be made scallop ways, or in some kind of pretty work.  A coffin in the 17th and 18th century was essentially a baking dish for a pie made from boiling water and melting lard or butter in it and adding flour.  It was tough and not intended to be consumed.

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