[Sca-cooks] Re: for the glossary & the cold food thread

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Christina Nevin wrote:
>
>         Adamantius wrote:
>         And then there's that Apician recipe that calls for frying dates in
>         honey. Which, when you consider its boiling point, isn't all that
>         outlandish, if a bit dangerous.
>
> And also very yummy...hmm, don't they say danger is the spice of life?
>
>         and also:
>         Bawme, I assume, as in balm, used as a verb? Didn't see it in CoI,
> but
>         then my search was quite cursory.
>
> It's referred to in the notes on page 132, as occurring in the Aberystwyth,
> Nat.Lib Wales, Peniarth 394D version, written as:
> Þen bawme them with clarified hony and serue them furth
> instead of as:
> Claryfye honey & flamme hem Þerwyt; ete hem hote or colde.
>
> Ciao
> Lucrezia

Eeeew, Lucrezia is eating embalmed fritters, neener neener...

Adamantius, obviously spending way too much time with children lately
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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