[Sca-cooks] what is your project?

[Elaine Koogler]

The other thing I've done that makes Middle English a little easier to understand
is to read the recipe out loud.  You can often understand what a word is when you
pronounce it out loud...that way you're thinking in terms of the sound rather
than a strange spelling.  I thought I was being weird, but a scholar in Middle
English tells me that I accidentally discovered the best way to do it.

Kiri

rcmann4 at earthlink.net wrote:

> On 18 Jun 01,, bill mayfield wrote:
>
> >   So if any of the more learned of you on the list have suggestons
> > for projects or books that may be of a help to a novice such as me
> > feel free to let me know.
> >
> >   I remain your humble servant,
> >     Aethelwulf
>
> I'm still at an intermediate stage when it comes to doing redactions, but
> you're right in thinking that it becomes easier with practice.  Medieval
> cooking vocabulary may look weird at first, but since a lot of the words are
> repeated in recipe after recipe, you start to get familiar with them.  Before
> long, you read "nym eyren" and automatically translate it into "take eggs..."
>
> Something that I have found very useful in doing redactions is to use
> modern recipes as a guideline.  Let's say I'm redacting a dish that
> resembles a baked custard.  The medieval recipe contains no quantities,
> and tell me to bake it "until it is cooked".  The modern recipe will tell me
> how many eggs I need to thicken X amount of milk, and how long to bake it,
> and at what temperature.  Some of the more experienced or intuitive cooks
> don't need that guideline, but I do.
>
> If you don't yet have it, one very good source is "Take a Thousand Eggs",
> by Cindy Renfrow of this list.  http://www.thousandeggs.com
> It comes in two volumes.  Every recipe is given in the original Middle
> English, then "translated" into modern English.  The recipes in Vol. I also
> have Cindy's redactions.
>
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