SC - cooking in a pit or on a spit
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Wed Mar 3 23:08:30 PST 1999
Hello again!
OK, seems as though I'm the only one who was not aware of a secular
use for the term Oblat. Or are they what I know as Waffeln?
Now for the questions:
Do we know (and how?) that this term was used for a secular item
within the period of reference? I wouldn't use chalice to mean
goblet, for example, or pyx to mean small plate. And Oblat did (and
still does) have other religious connotations too.
If this is a wafer we are talking about, why line it with paper
before loading it with marzipan?
If inger really does mean Enger (and I can't think of any better
definition), that implies compression, and we're just going to crush
the wafer (which is still not attached to the marzipan because it's
been lined with paper).
This doesn't really make sense to me, and I think we need to beware
of automatically assuming that a word used in period had the same
definition it does now (like Dirne). Sure it may have, but we need
to prove that to ourselves first.
On the other hand, why don't we just fry the rotten things and call
them cuskynoles?
Cairistiona
PS. Don't let's get upset over this stuff; I want to see at least
some of you when I move to Belgium!
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