[Sca-cooks] Interesting period words

[Daniel Myers]

On Aug 30, 2004, at 11:16 AM, <kingstaste at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I'm probably picking up on something not really there, but did the 
> name come
> from the actual job description = bake; stir ?  (one would think it 
> would be
> stirbake, but anyway...)
> Christianna
>
>
> (1332) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10
>     262:  Muriele le Bakestr'.


 From the looks of it, it could be an abbreviated form of bakestress.  
Such could even come about in the transcription process where a 
transcriber misses a "shorthand" mark that took the place of the "ess" 
ending.

- Doc


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