SC - warming ovens

[Gaylin Walli]

Mulberries I can understand.  I ain't so sure about chestnuts.  I don't think
the sauce would be blue.


In a message dated 3/4/99 4:50:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
renfrow at skylands.net writes:

> 
>  Hello!  I don't recall if anyone mentioned it, but there is a recipe in
>  Epulario (p. 32) for 'skie color sauce in summer' which calls for
>  mulberries: "Take wild mulberies which grow in the Hedges, and a few
>  stamped Almonds with a little Ginger, temper all this with Veriuice and
>  straine it."
>  
>  Cindy
>  
>  >Greetings all,
>  >
>  >Yes I know most of you are probably sick of this discussion by now, but a
>  >friend of mine has come up with a twist in the tale.  The following is her
>  >email.  Can anyone help here?
>  >
>  >Meliora.
>  >
>  >> The following is the best translation my colleague could achieve.
>  >> There is one problem - the original is in a regional
>  >> dialect (which one isn't known) and so that has made the translation
>  >> more difficult.
>  >>
>  >> The original:
>  >>
>  >> Piglia de li moroni salvatiche che nascono in le fratte, et un poche de
>  >> amandole be piste, con un pocho di zenzevero. Et queste cose
>  >> distemperari con agresto et passarale per la stamegnia.
>  >>
>  >> Translation:
>  >>
>  >> Take some wild chestnuts that grow in the bramble/woods, and a few well
>  >> crushed almonds, with a bit of ginger. And dilute these things with
>  >> verjuice and strain them through a sieving cloth.
>  >>
>  >> I checked about the chestnuts as opposed to the blackberries (which is
>  >> in the other translation), but this was the major problem with the
>  >> regional dialect - he couldn't be certain about the exact translation of
>  >> the word.
>  >>
>  >> This becomes curiouser and curiouser. Also, there's nothing about it
>  >> turning blue or any other colour, for that matter.
>  >>
>  >> Michelle
>  >>
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