SC - Fascinating etymological study / too much free time???

[harper at idt.net]

Grenon sounds something like grañones -- the Spanish word for 
groats.  Nola has a recipe for a kind of frumenty made with wheat groats 
and almond milk.  It seems to me that the minced-liver dish might look 
something like boiled groats, but would taste *VERY* different, hence 
"faux".  I looked in a couple of online French dictionaries.  The word for 
groats is "gruau", but "grenon" may have been a borrowing or an 
archaic usage.  Just some wild-blue-yonder speculations...

Brighid (who was actually a French major, would you believe?)


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