[Sca-cooks] Walms?

[James Prescott]

At 01:22 -0400 2003-07-15, Christine Seelye-King wrote:
> Hm, well, Cindy's glossary agrees with that, but I'm not getting what
> measurement we're looking at here.  The amount of time it would take to come
> to a boil?
> Christianna


There is a similar phrase in French, to boil for some number of 
(large) bubbles, which in the French context (Casteau, 1604) I 
interpret to mean a relatively short time.  Specifically the time 
for the water in the pot at a full boil to make one of its big 
surging bubbles that number of times.  If there is one big surge 
every three seconds, then six or seven of them would take perhaps
twenty seconds.  YMMV.


Thorvald