Original Source: Thomas Dawson, The Second Part of the Good Huswifes Jewell

To Make Fine Paste.
Take faire flower and wheat, & the yolkes of egges with sweet butter, melted, mixing all these together with your hands, til it be brought down paste, & then make your coffins whether it be for pyes or tartes, then you may put Saffron and suger if you will have it a sweet paste, having respect to the true seasonings some use to put to their paste Beefe or Mutton broth, and some Creame.