[Sca-cooks] Translation, transliteration, redaction, etc.???

[david friedman]

>--
>Translation--One language into another
>
>Transliteration--Ye Olde Inglyshe into modern English
>
>Redaction--Tanking vague instructions: Tak as many hennes as are needed
>hacke them into gobbettes and seethe it enough and turning them into a
>modern recipe: Take a chicken and cut it into pieces and boil it.

Your redaction is pretty much the same as your transliteration. The
redaction would be something more like:

Take one 3 pound stewing hen, cut the meat into chunks about 1 to 2
inches on a side, bring two quarts of water to a boil, put in the
chicken, let it boil for thirty minutes.
--
David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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