[Sca-cooks] Walms?

[Terry Decker]

The (paraphrased) OED defines a walm as "making waves" and a "period of
boiling."  So I would suggest that "a half dozen walms" is an instruction to
bring the liquid to a boil, remove it from the heat until it stops boiling,
then return it to the heat and bring it back to a boil for a total of six
boils.

I do want to find out how a walm is related to a wallop, but that will need
to wait for this evening.

Bear


>anyone  know how long a walm is?  A recipe for Gellye of Pippins calls for
>boiling the pippins for half a dozen walms.  Sounds to me like the length
of
>time it takes to say a particular prayer, but I don't know for sure.
>Anyone?
>Christianna