[Sca-cooks] [jp_sca at yahoo.com: Re: what larded milk recipe?]

[Chris Stanifer]

--- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:

> I wonder if there's a typo somewhere along the line: in Scully's 
> translation, there's a semicolon between the part about not adding 
> bacon on a fish day, and then the instruction about adding wine and 
> verjuice to curdle. I suspect a better colloquial translation for 
> that passage might be something like, "take lardons, cut them into 
> two or three pieces, and throw them into the milk to boil. If you 
> wish it for a fish day, do not add lardons, but [in any case/either 
> way] throw in some wine and verjuice..."


This sounds logical.  The lardons themselves would not help to curdle the mass, so you would still
need the acid to help the eggs along.  Simply leaving the bacon out for fish days sounds right.

William de Grandfort

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