SC - don't cringe too bad....

[lilinah@earthlink.net]

I'm feeling somewhat pleased with myself.  I have just finished the rough 
draft of de Nola's chapter on meat dishes -- 179 recipes!! -- and have 
begun the Lenten section.  As there are only 64 Lenten recipes,  many 
of them short, I have high hopes of finishing the translation sometime 
before the end of the current geological epoch.  :-)

The introduction to the next chapter contains an interesting remark 
about adapting meat dishes for Lenten cooking.  De Nola says:

"Although the victuals that you can make for meat days are infinite, 
many of them can be made in Lent, because in the chapters on those 
victuals where I say to dissolve them with meat broth, those sauces or 
pottages can be dissolved with salt and oil and water, but first you have 
to give it a boil.  And in this manner it is as good as meat broth if it is 
well tempered with salt and if the oil is very fine, and in this manner, 
many victuals which are put forth for meat days can be made in Lent."



Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net