Re: [lace-chat] Mince Pies
Googling for 'coffin shaped mince pies' came up with "coffin or cradle shaped ...". Makes sense. Helen in hot SE Qld, Australia. > > > > According to the Daily Telegraph's online advent calendar > > http://tinyurl.com/2bw9cb for 13th December, mince pies were either > > coffin shaped or manger shaped with a pastry baby on top prior to 1650. > > I can understand the manger bit but can anyone enlighten me as to the > > significance of the coffin shape? Sorry if this is an obvious > > question! > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Helen (in wet Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Mince Pies
On Dec 13, 2007, at 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand the manger bit but can anyone enlighten me as to the significance of the coffin shape? "Coffin" as in "box" (container). Another word of the same origin and the same basic meaning is still used today -- coffer. Both, apparently, come from the Greek word for "basket" (according to my Oxford Concise) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Mince Pies
On 12/13/07 8:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the Daily Telegraph's online advent calendar http://tinyurl.com/2bw9cb for 13th December, mince pies were either coffin shaped or manger shaped with a pastry baby on top prior to 1650. I can understand the manger bit but can anyone enlighten me as to the significance of the coffin shape? Sorry if this is an obvious question! "Coffin" used to be a general term for any sort of box or case, and was the word used for closed pastry shells. Sometimes "coffins" were disposable casserole dishes made of pastry, and weren't intended to be eaten. I suspect that somebody who was looking for a filler scraped together some loose information and jumped to a conclusion. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] Mince Pies
I believe "coffin" in this case just means a box. Boxes at that time were often called "coffins" -- you can see this term used to describe, for instance, some embroidered boxes of the period. Carolyn > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:10 PM > To: Lace-Chat > Subject: [lace-chat] Mince Pies > > According to the Daily Telegraph's online advent calendar > http://tinyurl.com/2bw9cb for 13th December, mince pies were either > coffin shaped or manger shaped with a pastry baby on top prior to 1650. > I can understand the manger bit but can anyone enlighten me as to the > significance of the coffin shape? Sorry if this is an obvious > question! > > Thanks in advance, > > Helen (in wet Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Mince Pies
According to the Daily Telegraph's online advent calendar http://tinyurl.com/2bw9cb for 13th December, mince pies were either coffin shaped or manger shaped with a pastry baby on top prior to 1650. I can understand the manger bit but can anyone enlighten me as to the significance of the coffin shape? Sorry if this is an obvious question! Thanks in advance, Helen (in wet Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
