[Sca-cooks] Was The size of Rissoles now question about translation

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Elaine Koogler:
>>
>>Rissoles of fruit.  Take mushrooms, and raisins: pick them, and 
>>wash them in wine.  Grind them with apples and pears, pared and 
>>picked clean.  Do thereto good powders and whole spices, make balls 
>>thereof, fry in oil, and serve them forth.
>>
>>Again, no mention of a wrapper.
>>This wrapped rissole may be a modern dish, but I am unfamiliar with it.
>>
>I have a question on the translation of this one.  I made this dish 
>for a feast several years back, and I translated "fyges" to mean 
>"figs".  I notice that you translate it "mushrooms".  ????
>
>Kiri

I spotted that just now, too. Maybe it was read as "funges"? But I 
agree; I think it's dried figs.

Adamantius
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itself."
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