SC - parchment source (OT)

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I'm holding you to that promise! ...and thanks
Olwen


>From: "Vincent Cuenca" <bootkiller at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: SC - Re: Manteca
>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:33:44 GMT
>
>Whoops!  Knew I shouldn't have taken my source text home!  I can only 
>access
>my Hotmail account at work, since I don't have a computer at home.  They're
>pretty understanding. I'll have to double-check the wording and get back to
>the list.
>
>As far as "aceite" being used to indicate animal fats, I'm pretty sure that
>in "Manjar Blanco para Dolientes que No Comen Nada" De Nola uses "aceite" 
>to
>indicate fat from a chicken's egg sac.  Also for the "torta a la genovesa"
>he instructs the cook to add a little "aceite de bazo" to the pan to keep
>the dough from sticking.  "Aceite de bazo" iterally translates to "oil of
>the spleen"; as far as I know, spleens don't contain oil; it made more 
>sense
>to use "fat".  I could be wrong, though. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable
>of animal anatomy could instruct us?
>
>"Manteca" does mean "butter" in Argentina; suffice it to say I didn't eat
>much buttered toast when I was down there.  The dialect preserves some
>interesting survivals of Renaissance Spanish; they use an informal
>second-person plural form of address in place of the more common
>second-person singular. ("vos" instead of "tu").  This is an antiquated 
>form
>of formal address used in the 15th and 16th centuries.  Of course,
>Argentines are weird, anyway.  :)
>(totally off topic, I know, but certainly no more so than boiled peanuts 
>and
>Miracle Whip!)
>
>Vicente
>(once we get the whole "electuary" vs "butter" thing sorted out, I'll post
>the recipe.  Really, Olwen, I promise.)
>
>(and as far as waltzing goes, my good Lady Brighid, I am shocked that you
>would suggest such a shameless thing!  To dance, facing each other, while
>actually touching your waist and clasping your palm!  Horrors!  You'll be
>showing off your ankles next! :))
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