Fw: [Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

From: "Paul Buell"
To: "'Phlip'" <phlip at 99main.com>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?


> The Mongols certainly ate marmots, "tarbaqan" in Soup. Still, all of this
> sounds very unlike any recipes I am familiar with.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phlip [mailto:phlip at 99main.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:49 PM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?
>
>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > " Catch many of the mice of the Hairy Tail (gerbils 1 tan clean), finely
> > ground coriander (one liang), onions (ten stalks), spices (five ch'ien).
> > Apply [coriander, onions and spices] uniformly to ingredients and roast.
> One
> > may dress the hairy mice in a thick flour with fuang and steam-roast
until
> > done in a cage; this is also possible. One may dress the hairy mice with
> > liquid butter combined with flour, and brazier cook in a brazier; this
is
> > also possible."
> > ... "MIce of the Hairy Tail meat is best in fall, when they are fat for
> the
> > long sleep.  It is rich, brown and crackles when fried. It supplements
the
> > center and augments ch'i. It is beneficial eaten broiled dipped in salt
> > broth water and roots. Of the white foods best with airag."
> >
> > So my guess that it was a translation problem is probably right.
> >
> > Hrothny
> >
>
> OK, I'm going to chime in here with a fact- it may be a translation
problem,
> but the word would not be marmot, most likely. Why? Because marmots are
too
> big to be referred to as "mice with the hairy tail". Possibly "rats with
the
> hairy tail". Gerbils are about the size of mice- marmots are about the
size
> of cats- think "groundhog" since our groundhogs are a species of marmot.
> Rats are somewhere between the two in size.
>
> I can attest that marmots/groundhogs are good eating, btw. If barbecued
when
> young, tthey're excellent- older ones need to be stewed, and a pair of
> glands removed.
>
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
>
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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