SC - Literal translation-cow's eyes

[Stephen Bloch]

Ras wrote:

> >A good example of the caution flag for a lteral translation would be Middle
> >Eastern recipes. There are several recipes which call for cow's eyes. What is
> >actually meant is a whole different ball of wax. IIRC, it really is asking
> >for dates or figs or somesuch. Cariadoc  , could you please jog my memory
> >here?

And Cariadoc replied:
 
> Prunes, according to a note in the translation of the Andalusian cookbook,
> I presume by Charles Perry although he might be quoting Ambrosio
> Huici-Miranda.

That footnote appears in Miranda's translation, and in my
second-generation translation, before Charles Perry started work on it.

					mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
                                                 Stephen Bloch
                                           sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
					 http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
                                        Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
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