SC - Re: open cloesd kitchen

[Gaylin Walli]

Could this refer to the fillet worn on the head in period?  The noodle should
possibly be as long as a fillet would be if straightened out?

Kiri

Gaylin Walli wrote:

> I'm trying to finish off the write-up for the Roman Noodles
> (Esicium Romanum) for the feast I'm doing and I'm having
> one bit of trouble with a portion of the recipe.
>
> When making the noodles, you go through the mixing and
> rolling steps, cutting the noodles out to the width of
> about your finger. 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?
>
> Jasmine
> Iasmin de Cordoba, gwalli at infoengine.com
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