SC - Ave Maria

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- -----Original Message-----
From: LHG, JRG <liontamr at ptd.net>
To: renfrow at skylands.net <renfrow at skylands.net>
Cc: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 8:53 AM
Subject: SC - Ave Maria


>OK, Cindy, I must see the recipe that times things according to saying the
>Ave Maria! My guess would be 3 minutes (it being a longish prayer, right?),
>but I'm not catholic and that's off the cuff. It can't be that unusual a
>timing device given the "Manus Christi Height" one sometimes sees in sugar
>melting recipes in some period sources.
>
>Does anyone have other examples of "religous" measurment in recipies?
>
>Aoife
>
>"Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought it back."
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My other half seems to recall a reference to a woman who cooked her
soft-boiled eggs by saying her Ave Marias.

Thorbjorn the Cook
Shire of Shittemwood
Kingdom of Antir



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