SC - Blue Sauce - Maybe chestnuts?

[Cindy Renfrow]

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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