[Sca-cooks] The size of Rissoles

[Terry Decker]

Rissole has two seperate meanings.  As a noun it refers to a pastry in Old
French deriving from the Vulgar Latin "russeola" meaning red paste.  As a
verb or adjective (often with an accent over the final "e"), it refers to
browning being the past participle of the French "rissoler" (to brown) and
possible deriving from the earlier noun.

So the usage appears to move from the specific (the pastry) to the general
(the action of browning).  One needs to be careful in considering
translations whether the translator is using the word as used at the time or
in its modern context.

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