SC - plates
Ian van Tets
ivantets at botzoo.uct.ac.za
Wed Oct 21 13:18:31 PDT 1998
Ian van Tets wrote:
>
> Hello again!
>
> The quote in Piers Ploughman (IIRC) is that he has no _eggs_,
> 'collops for to fry'. He was lamenting being extremely poor - I
> don't think he was in any position to buy red meat.
>
> Cairistiona
Yes, I seem to recall the context was strongly in favor of "collops" being a
reference to bacon, as per the late-or-post-period recipe for "The Best
Collops and Eggs" (Markham, I think) which is simply bacon and eggs, more or
less. Of course the references are something like 400 years apart, but the
usage is consistent as a reference to slices of meat.
Adamantius
Østgardr, East
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troy at asan.com
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