SC - Blue Sauce - Maybe chestnuts?
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Thu Mar 4 16:09:56 PST 1999
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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