SC - Ein Kuchen

[Decker, Terry D.]

Thank you, Thomas.  Raising the straining cloth on straw for drainage makes
a great deal of sense.  I was having a hard time with the why of this.  If
the straw is clean, and place in the bottom of a bowl, then the almond milk
is still useable.

Technically, semolina (or semolina flour) is a high gluten chisel (the bran
and large particles left behind in the first bolting of freshly milled
flour).  The term is derived from a diminutive (semolino) of the Italian for
bran (semola).  There are five grades from 00 to 3.  2 is the grade common
to the US, and used primarily in pasta.  

This of course leaves me kicking myself, Semmel is obviously derived from
the Latin simila, meaning fine flour, rather than being a term for semolina,
a by-product of milling durum wheat.

There are days I feel amazingly dense.  Thanks again.

Bear 

> Bear,
> according to the Deutsches Woerterbuch, _schaub_ can also be used for
> straw that does not come in the form of scheaves ("_schaub_ für 'stroh'
> überhaupt, als stoffbezeichnung"; 14, 2296). In addition, the use of the
> indefinite article for a certain quantity of something is well attested
> too. Looking at a similar passage in the Buch von guter Speise, I find:
> "vnd lege ez vf reine stro" (Rez. #39)
> 'and put it onto clean straw'
> 
> Thus, could it be, that one must lay the cloth on some straw (no
> sheaves) so that the liquid gets through the cloth more easily?
> 
> Th.
> (_semel melwe_ is fine, white flour, esp. from wheat; what exactly is
> semolina flour?)
> 
>