SC - Puck's marzipan

[Ian van Tets]

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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