SC - Literal translation-cow's eyes

[david friedman]

At 7:04 PM -0500 11/18/97, LrdRas at aol.com 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?

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.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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