SC - Another Andalus question- easier

[david friedman]

At 7:19 PM -0500 1/29/99, LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

>In the same recipe this line occurs:
>
>'...enclose it in a tannur; place under it an earthen pot in which what melts
>from the flank can drip...'.
>
>Am I correct in assuming that this word 'tannur', which was left untranslated
>and unfootnoted, was some kind of a grate or vessel with holes in the bottom
>through which the grease could drip?

I believe a tannur is a clay oven--the same root word as "tandoori."

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


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