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what about a very sweet wine or one to which honey/sweetener had been added.
I agree about the mistranslation....meat cooked in honey (except for ham
with a honey mustard glaze) seems rather odd to me  :D


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>Agreed. The bottom line, is, though, that we don't know. I tried to
>suggest a hypothesis that would answer the existing pieces of the
>puzzle: we have reason to believe that the meat isn't cooked in honey,
>but rather in wine of some kind. How wine becomes honey, in the sense of
>a typo or scribal error, has a limited number of likely explanations.
>You'd have to misspell "wine" pretty badly to get "honey". A
>mistranslation seemed like a pretty good explanation, and I mentioned
>the possibility of a wine with a similar name to honey as exactly that:
>a possibility. Its perceived likelihood, or the lack thereof, is
>something I didn't even bother to consider, apart from mentioning that I
>looked for such a wine name and, like you, didn't find one.
>
>Of course, it may also be that there is, or was, a wine (and possibly
>not even a French one) whose name is similar to the English word,
>"honey". Still another on our limited list of possibilities is that the
>scribe's eye accidentally wandered to another part of the page, where it
>came to rest on the word "hony", causing the scribe to copy it where it
>didn't belong.
>
>Adamantius
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>Phil & Susan Troy
>troy at asan.com
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