SC - Re: Northern Lights Feast Menu

[ChannonM@aol.com]

Iasmin de Cordoba, gwalli at infoengine.com wrote:
>From there, the translation from
>Milham's Platina says:
>
>"Then when it has been drawn out to the width of a finger,
>  cut it. It is so long you would call it a fillet."
>
>Okay, I give. What's the "fillet" length in this sense? It's
>certainly a reference to *length* because we already have
>the width from the finger measurement, but I'm hard
>pressed to come up with even a guess. Ideas?

A fillet (fil'-it) is often a ribbon or cord you tie around your head 
to hold your hair, so perhaps the length of a headband. And just as 
finger widths vary, so do head circumferences.

Anahita al-shazhiyya