St. Patrick (was Re: SC - Haggis shop???)

[LrdRas@aol.com]

I forget now if I was working with a definition or a
translation, but thanks for the clarification.  What are
lees?

Dana/Ximena
(no, I don't care for wine, why do you ask?)

- --- harper at idt.net wrote:
> And it came to pass on 14 Nov 00, , that Dana Huffman
> wrote:
> 
> > I did come across some recipes calling for what I
> decided
> > were burned white wine dregs (rasuras blancas quemadas)
> in
> > the bits I've done.  Granted, my translation of rasuras
> is
> > not unassailable.  As I recall, it might also be the
> > remains of the grapes after they've been squished, or
> some
> > such thing, so it might be that rasuras are, as it
> were,
> > the pre-fermentation by-products and borras the
> > post-fermentation by-products.  I'll have to check into
> > this further.  Or perhaps borras are the sediment in
> > something else.
> 
> My dictionary says that "rasuras" are the boiled lees of
> wine, and 
> that "cascas" are the remians of the pressed grapes (the
> latter are 
> mentioned as chicken feed in Herrera).
> 
> 
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
> mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> harper at idt.net
> 


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