SC - Ave Maria time-answer-I think

[Cindy Renfrow]

>The entire 'Ave Maria' ritual takes about 20 mins. I would say that a time of
>20-30 minutes would be the correct time to use when redacting recipes
>instructing one to use an 'Ave Maria' . This is, of course dependant on the
>recipe but it would work for the example I am aware of.
>
>Ras (who thaught it was about time to participate in the Marian mysteries
>again and just happened to have a stop watch handy. :-))

<< No repetitions are involved, unless one is saying the Rosary, but since
what
 we are using as our unit is an "Ave Maria", then one "Ave Maria" is
presumably
 what is meant. >>

>Wouldn't this be a huge 'presumption'? Does anyone know what context the Ave
>is called for? Like the recipe it is mentioned in? If we had this info it
>would be easier to determine the probable time span given the variuos times
>that have been put forth.


Hello all!  Thank you for your answers.  In the context of this recipe, I
think 20 to 30 minutes, rather than seconds, is correct.  This is one of
Alys' candy recipes.  Perhaps it is the one Gunthar was looking for?

13 To make suger plate. Take a lb. of fayr clarefyde suger and put it in a
panne and sette it on a furneys, & gar it sethe. And asay [th]i suger
betwene [th]i fingers and [th]i thombe, and if it parte fro [th]i finger
and [th]i thombe [th]an it is inow sothen, if it be potte suger. And if it
be finer suger, it will haue a litell lower decoccioun. And sete it [th]an
fro the fyr on a stole, & [th]an stere it euermore with a spature till it
tourne owte of hys browne colour into a [3]elow colour, and [th]an sette it
on [th]e fyre ageyn [th]e mountynance of a Aue Maria, whill euermore
steryng wyth [th]e spatur, and sette it of ageyne, but lat it noght wax
ouer styfe for cause of powrynge. And loke [th]ou haue redy beforne a fair
litel marbill stone and a litell flour of ryse in a bagge, shakyn ouer
[th]e marbill stone till it be ouerhilled, and [th]an powre [th]i suger
[th]ereon as [th]in as it may be renne, for [th]e [th]inner [th]e platen
[th]e fairer it is. If [th]ou willt, put [th]erin any diuerse flours,
[th]at is to say roses leues, violet leues, gilofre leues, or any o[th]er
flour leues, kut [th]em small and put [th]em in whan [th]e suger comes
first fro [th]e fyre. And if [th]ou wilt mak fyne suger plate, put [th]erto
att [th]e first sethying ii unces of rose water, and if [3]e will make rede
plate, put [th]erto I unce of fyne tournesole clene waschen at [th]e fyrst
sethying."


Cindy/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net


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