SC - jurjaniya meat
Ann Sasahara
ariann at nmia.com
Fri Jul 23 15:49:16 PDT 1999
Greetings
I'm home today, so I looked up jurjaniya in al-Baghdadi. The recipe is on
p35 of the first magazine, listed under "Sour Dishes". Prof. Arberry has
an interesting footnote on the type of meat.
Arberry, p35 reproduced for ed purposes:
"Cut fat meat into middling pieces (2), place in the saucepan....
<snip>
2. This appears to be the significance of the word wasat (pl. ausat) in
this and similar context: cf. the proverb, "The wasat (sc. golden mean) of
a thing is the best part.""
end quote
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I don't know Arabic, so would it be appropriate to interpret this to mean:
pieces of any meat, as long as they were the "best part"/wasat of your
meat?
Pondering
Ariann
arian at nmia.com
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/23/99 4:38:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, agora at algonet.se
> writes:
>
> << I can guess its doesn`t matter what kind of meat you use, lamb or
> chicken or veal.
>
> Yours >>
>
> The recipe would most likely have been referring to lamb, mutton, kid, or
> goat, IMO. Possibly older or excess younger camels. Certainly beef (either
> older or younger) would have been an exception since cattle were a sign of
> wealth. Possibly veal but highly unlikely because others would have been
> readily available to purchase your young cattle to increase their own
> 'wealth' if such animals were available.
>
> Ras
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