Sanguine - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food

[a5foil]

I suggest that the *original* sentence may have been convoluted, and that
"sanguine" describes the outside of the carrot, and not the knife. What we
may be struggling with here is a constraint of the
transcription/translation.

Alternatively, it might be an allusive reference to the sharpness of the
knife (i.e., of sanguine humor, bloody in nature, attracted/attractive to
blood, readily draws blood). Hmmm...experience calls that a dull knife,
actually...A reach, I know, but not an unreasonable speculation.

Thomas Longshanks

----- Original Message -----
From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Sanguine - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food


> "Cindy M. Renfrow" wrote:
> >
> > The recipe in Epulario, "To make Gealies of flesh or fish, and of divers
> > colours in one platter" says "you may make a sangune colour with
Carriots
> > rosted in the embers, and being rosted, make cleane the outside with a
> > knife which is sanguine,...".
>
> Just out of curiosity, what does sanguine mean, in knife terms? I'm
> aware of definitions of the word as either bloody (and by extension,
> blood-colored) and as optimistic. How does one get a knife to be
> sanguine, or do I not want to know?
>
> Adamantius
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>
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