SC - Ein Kuchen
Valoise Armstrong
varmstro at zipcon.net
Mon Oct 16 18:37:54 PDT 2000
Bear wrote:
> My translation, notes, and comments:
>
> A cake.
>
> How you make an almond cake. Thus, make a good milk of almond kernals. And
> seethe (1) this. And stir (2) it down with a sugar. And pour that upon a
> cloth. And a schaub (3) there under. And make a dough (4) of semmel meal
> (semolina). And wille that with a shaft (5). And lay the boiled almonds
> thereon. And cut that down. And fry it in a pan in fat (6). That is
> called an almond cake.
It looks like you are pretty much on the right track. Sorry, I can't help
you with the schaub except to wonder if it might be a colloquial expression
for a sieve of some sort, from the context in which it is used.
> The dough is a semmel dough which I would expect to be made of at least 0
> fine semolina flour. I'm also of the opinion this is a leavened dough,
semeln melwe (Semmel mehl) isn't semolina flour, but bread crumbs from
Semmel, a white bread roll.
Valoise
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