Huff paste is a stiff pie shell (or coffyn) made using a mixture of flour, suet, and boiling water.
[2][3] Huff paste's main purpose is simply to create a solid container for the pie's ingredients.
Huff paste can be moulded into a variety of shapes, called coffyns or coffers, similar to a Cornish pasty.
It also allowed food to be preserved so that country dwellers could send it over long distances as gifts to their friends in other towns or areas.
[4] A dish from Wiltshire, called the Devizes pie, is layered forcemeat or offal cooked under a huff paste.