[Sca-cooks] hair sieve

[rcmann4 at earthlink.net]

On 7 Jun 01,, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> I ran across "hair sieve" in a recipe out of Robert de Nola, Libro de Coxina
> (Spanish 1525) for Poluora De Duque--Duke's Powder and wondering what a hair
> sieve was I went into my search engine and among other things came up with
> this from the Fanny Farmer Cookbook.  BYW Cindy is hair sieve in the
> glossery?   Olwen

The Spanish word is "cedazo".  It is defined as a hoop with a
cloth/fabric/woven stuff covering one side.  The RAE says that the
word used to be "cerdazo", because it was originally made with
"cerdas" (bristles, especially hog's bristles).


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