SC - Stefan's recent wafer experiment
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Thu Sep 30 13:38:11 PDT 1999
In a message dated 9/30/99 7:03:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
writes:
<< Le Menagier doesn't explain the difference, if any (but I bet there is
one) between sixths of wine, >>
Me too. :-) And I promise to find the passage wherever I saw it as soon as I
finish planning and redacting the recipes for the Feast at the Weekend of
Wisdom (Oct.22-24). However, I did find in a quick glance through La Menagier
this passage in 'Beverages for Invalids' translated by Janet Hinson as:
'SWEET TISANE. Take water and boil it, then add for each sixth of a gallon of
water one.............'
The ball park figure here is 2 2/3 cps for a sixth. I realize that the
definition of a sixth would be different if it were being used as a
measurement for weight or quantity. However, I am not convinced that there
was any more confusion then as now regarding cups, oz., etc., and the things
they relate in recipes. I am also not convinced that weight measurement was
necessarily the 'universal' way of measuring things.
For instance, I think a sixth when used by itself with no other descriptive
words always meant either a weight or a volume but not interchangeably. Much
as we use the word cup. When a modern recipe says 1 cp., it means volume not
weight. The uses of the term sixth in the few places I have seen it seem to
indicate a volume measurement also, not a weight.
I may be wrong here but I think this is an important piece of information to
hash out and come to some sort of standard definition if it can be found. If
not, the most plausible definition would be better than none at all for a
starting point when redacting recipes, IMO. The problem, of course, is
centered on what a plausible standard definition would be. :-)
Ras
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