[Sca-cooks] Glossary -- bray

[Bethra Spicewell]

Greetings

-----Olwen said:  Thanks Ras.  I wonder how they came to call it that.
I have no "other language" skills so this may be obvious to someone who
does.  Bray is probably grind or mash in some language.----

According to the OED online (new toy) one of the cross-definitions for
bray is bruise. The spelling of  'brysse' probably became 'braise'
which could well have become 'bray'

---Bruise:   4. To beat small, pound, crush, bray, grind down.
ref:   c1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 45 if thay [peas] ben harde..Brysse
hom or strene hom. 1523 FITZHERB. Husb. §59 Take that grasse, and
broyse it a lyttell in a morter. ----

Just MHO, but it seems like a logical progression.

Bethra
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Barony of Stonemarche  EK *



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